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...Malcolm's death as a major setback in the fight for Negro rights in America. But these reactions, said Carl Rowan, then head of the United States Information Agency, were based on "misinformation." All the praise for Malcolm X, he said, was for "an ex-convict and ex-dope peddler, who became a racial fanatic." And so in the United States, the reaction to Malcolm's performance in the sixties was colored by his record in the forties, and only half of his story was discussed...
...were real; her poignancy and power were all the more effective for her age. Cobb, now 54, had played the part so memorably (330 times) on Broadway that he and Willy have become nearly indistinguishable. Even on TV's western series, The Virginian, he seemed to be a peddler in the saddle, itching to dismount and begin pushing his products...
...Donna was an innocent victim of the dangerous LSD craze (TIME, March 11); she had found the "candy" cube in the refrigerator of her family's Brooklyn apartment, where her 18-year-old uncle said he had stashed it after buying it for $5 from a Greenwich Village peddler...
...leer of the sensualist" that he was guilty of "the sordid business of pandering." Brennan took dead aim at "those who would make a business of pandering to the widespread weakness for titillation by pornography." The result: a stiff new rule for obscenity cases that may make a peddler's conduct more important than his product. "Where the purveyor's sole emphasis is on the sexually provocative aspects of his publications, that fact may be decisive in the determination of obscenity...
...their tight little island. Even so, a poverty-ridden troupe of English Shakespeare players still continues its work, bringing the Bard to the provinces. But India no longer has time for the old gentilities, and wherever the itinerant Shakespeareans try to move their goods (wallah is Hindi for peddler), they meet stiff sales resistance. Indians, like most of the rest of the world, have forsaken the theater for the film, and the cheapest movie actress means more to them than the most lyric Lear. The once-prominent troupe, reduced by death and penury to mother, father and ingenue daughter, stops...