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...York, Associate Editor Frank Merrick wrote the cover story, which was researched by Marta Dorion. In a separate section of the cover story, Staff Writer Peter A. Janssen examined the aspects of the quality of education that are central elements in teachers' strikes in New York and other cities...
...York, James Atwater, Frank Merrick, Ivan Webster and Gerald Clarke pieced together the cables that flowed in all through the weekend and wrote the cover story and accompanying boxes. The package was researched by Edward Tivnan, Marta Dorion and Allan Hill and edited by Marshall Loeb. "An assassination attempt is more than just bad news or the act of a lunatic," says Loeb. "It raises the problem of how to campaign in our free, open society. And it reins in the ability of our President or presidential candidates to move among their followers and get a 'feel...
Perversion and Prejudice. An English policeman named Merrick, who also had his eye on Daphne, arrests six Indians and Kumar. A jealous Merrick assumes that the Englishwoman was the victim of a rape organized by Kumar. But when Miss Manners says that Merrick has the wrong men and refuses to testify, a conviction is impossible. Still it is clear to the English community that Merrick has done his job well, and there is no outcry when he manages to have Kumar and his friends imprisoned as political unreliables. The Japanese, after all, have just defeated the English in Burma...
...truth of Kumar's innocence and the fact that Merrick is a man for whom law is an instrument of perversion and prejudice are not sufficiently unexpected to require four volumes of explanation. What does fully justify Scott's endless, repetitive probing is the struggle of the British community to avoid acknowledging the truth and the dubious morality of its presence as ruler of India. Kumar's own cultural alienation tends to make his case hopeless. He was raised from infancy in England, and he acquired upper-class speech and habits at a prestigious public school...
Hoping for a triumphant fall opening on Broadway, Playwright Tennessee Williams instead suffered a swift summer closing in Boston. Williams' The Red Devil Battery Sign had David Merrick as co-producer and Anthony Quinn in the leading role as a brain-damaged mariachi. The play lasted less than three weeks before local critics turned off the lights. "Dreadful," snipped the Boston Globe of Williams' first drama since Outcry in 1973, "a flickering shadow of his former self." The Boston Herald American said the play "teeters and totters eerily between true tragedy and mawkish melodrama." Complaining that...