Word: murders
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Married. Craig Rice, 39, tireless manufacturer of farcical whodunits for radio (Murder and Mr. Malone), cinema (The Falcon in Danger) and lending library (Home Sweet Homicide); and Henry W. De Mott, 28, fledgling scriptwriter; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in San Diego...
...Choreographer De Mille's first all-out try at murder. She had long been fascinated by the story of Lizzie Borden, the Fall River (Mass.) spinster who was tried in the '90s for the ax murder of her father and stepmother. Last year ("because I was feeling gloomy and murderous") she started building a ballet to show in Freudian terms how a young girl might get worked up to murder. One difference: her heroine commits the murders onstage and hangs; Lizzie Borden was acquitted...
...most M.P.s thought the death penalty had little influence on the murder rate. Some recalled that objections like Ede's were raised more than a century ago to oppose the reform of Britain's brutal criminal laws. In George III's reign, more than 200 crimes were punishable by death. Among them: felling a tree, picking a pocket, associating with gypsies for a month. In 1810, to a proposal to abolish 'the death penalty for shoplifting of articles worth five shillings or more, Lord Ellenborough had solemnly objected: "I trust your lordships will pause before...
...without the dire consequences predicted by Ellenborough, gibbet and gallows were prescribed for fewer & fewer crimes. When murder was crossed off the list last week, only three capital crimes remained: high treason in time of war, piracy with violence, arson in dockyards...
Through Dr. Mitchell, the Authors Bellamann attempt what amounts to a mass psychoanalysis of the town of Kings Row. Rape, murder and lesser sins are examined in language that seems lifted from a handbook of psychiatric cliches. And thanks to a brazenly contrived plot, good is rewarded and evil gets its come-uppance with a sureness and thoroughness that real life rarely witnesses...