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...Lord of the Flies, in which 30 boys, aged six to twelve, are stranded on a desert island without any adults. They elect a leader, explore the island, go fishing, and things move along at a Disneying pace for a while-until gradually the veneer of civilization begins to peel away and the boys revert to barbarism. All the boy actors in the cast are nonprofessional; they will be on Vieques Island until mid-August, and Director Brook's No. 1 problem is to prevent off-camera the occurrence of what he is trying to re-create on film...
...Fort Pierce, Fla., an all-male jury found former West Palm Beach Judge Joseph A. Peel Jr., 37, guilty of masterminding the murder of Judge Curtis E. Chillingworth who, with his wife, was bludgeoned and drowned in the Atlantic in 1955 (TIME, Nov. 14). Prosecutor Phillip O'Connell, an old friend of the murdered man, charged that the debonair Peel had feared that the protection he was selling to moonshiners and numbers men was about to be exposed by the respected Chillingworth, and so hired thugs to kill him. Facing life imprisonment after the jury recommended mercy, Peel defiantly...
...sensations. Their arms and legs, like reflections in an amusement park's crazy mirror, seem to change size and shape continually. The ground rolls like an ocean swell. The simplest tasks become all but impossible. Victims are unable to sew without making their hand a pin cushion, to peel a potato without cutting it in half, to crack an egg without smashing it. The ears ring...
...seen around here. He deserves particular credit for giving us a character who couldn't sheathe his sword, after last season in which too many couldn't extract their weapons. Choreographer Theresa Dickinson provided some pleasing dances, and outstanding movement by the policemen's chorus. Offspring of Sir Robert Peel, they and their well-shined escutcheons boast a bend sinister--they are clearly bastard descendants of Mack Sennett. The Keystone Cops had nothing on this crew in hilarity, and DcVoto should get a medieval medal for putting some of their lines into Gregorian chant...
Arrested and jailed, Holzapfel slashed his wrists, nearly died in his, cell. Peel was also arrested on the charge of conspiring to kill his hired killer, but jumped bail and disappeared. The police trapped him in a Chattanooga hotel last week. Said Peel: "I was shocked and surprised." Said Sheriff Kirk: "The case has now been broken." But there was some doubt that it would ever be brought to trial. Holzapfel's taped account of the murders is inadmissible in court, and the bodies of the Chillingworths have never been found...