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...last ten years in Yugoslavia's dank Sremska Mitrovica prison, where he wrote the major part of two blistering books, The New Class and Conversations with Stalin, which caused something of a sensation when they were published in the West. Last week Tito granted Djilas a pardon, and the writer was free once again. For how long was anyone's guess...
Last year a second inquiry into Evans' case was set up. This time the presiding justice ruled that "no jury could be satisfied of Evans' guilt beyond reasonable doubt." Last week, 16 years after his execution, Timothy Evans was granted a free pardon by Queen Elizabeth. Said Home Secretary Roy Jenkins to the House of Commons: "This case has no precedent and-I hope and believe-will have no successor." Responded one pleased M.P.: "British justice has shown itself big enough to admit that it can make a mistake...
...Your cover story on Cronkite points up one terrible truth. Image is the thing. This is true in newscasting, politics and (pardon) the press...
...exhausted Franco Corelli to substitute for an ailing tenor. He went to Corelli's hotel, got his room number, went upstairs, knelt in a prayerful attitude before the door and rang the bell. The door opened. A disheveled woman squawked in astonishment. Hmmm, wrong room. Begging her pardon, Bing dusted off his knees, strolled away, found the right room, knelt, rang the bell. Corelli could not turn him down...
Horace admired the bay. Virgil composed his Georgics and chose to be buried there. "I pardon all," wrote Goethe, "who have lost their minds in Naples." Readers will pardon British Novelist Gwyn Griffin (A Significant Experience), who clearly lost his mind in Naples, and has here written a vast, violent novel that commandingly redeems his mania...