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...MURRAY GEWIRTZ...
After Erickson's death in 1936. his widow's Murray Hill home in Manhattan was regularly visited by museum directors from all over the U.S., who hoped that some flattery at tea might win for their galleries a choice bequest in Mrs. Erickson's will. But most of the paintings were left to her in trust, and Anna Erickson decided that her own estate should be divided into 90 parts, to accommodate all the heirs (relatives, friends and charities), and that meant that it had to be liquidated. She died last Feb. 7 of a stroke; Parke...
...fortunate that they do hold the audience at the Charles, because Michael Murray has successfully turned O'Neill's essay into theatrical form. Murray's accomplishment is two-fold: he turns abstract dialogue into tangible conflict (no easy chore) and he uses symbols only to represent, never to replace, the forces that alter mens lives. For example, Dion Anthony is not destroyed by drink; his drinking only suggests the various fleeting intoxicants that burn out a man's insides...
...Murray's failing, however, lies in his faithfulness to O'Neill's assertive quality. He had a choice of being true to one of O'Neill's two contradictory attitudes toward himself reflected in the play: self-respect or self-contempt. In choosing the former, Murray placed his actors in the position of offering up conclusions, whereas the playwright (who later referred to the play as "a mystery") was speculating. Unlike the bull-session, which is tentative and never really ends, Murray's work is final in tone...
...United Nations, a force which included Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, Chicago TIME Chief Murray Gart and Correspondents Fred Gruin, Bert Meyers and Bill Smith covered the U.N. crisis. From correspondents in Bonn, Moscow, London, Paris, Tokyo, Belgrade, Vienna, Cracow, Leopoldville and Ndola came reports of reaction to the situation. At the TIME & LIFE Building, Associate Editor Edward Hughes pulled together all of the facts surrounding the U.N.'s hours of trial for the cover story, edited by Henry Grunwald. For Writer Hughes, 40, onetime TIME correspondent in Africa and Germany, the international tensions of recent weeks have provided...