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Somewhere in Manhattan.That would be enough to keep the college scouts hammering at Lew's door-if only they knew where to hammer. Papa Alcindor is a 6-ft. 3-in. New York subway policeman, and Mama is 5 ft. 11 in.; to all but their closest friends they live "somewhere in upper Manhattan," and their phone number is unlisted. All of Lew's letters are screened by his coach, and sportswriters are required to submit questions in writing-a procedure that has led some to suggest nastily that Donahue is really John Alden in disguise. One Midwestern...
Shortly after sticking up a Brooklyn hotel in 1960, Nathan Jackson fatally shot a pursuing policeman. Shot twice himself, Jackson got to a hospital. There, say detectives, he admitted: "I shot the colored cop. I got the drop on him." At his trial, however, Jackson testified that he had been drugged, refused water, and was in such pain that he could not remember what he said...
...work begun in the Homicide Act of 1957, which defined only certain types of murder as capital crimes while prescribing a life sentence for most other types. Thus a man could still be hanged if he stole from as well as killed his victim, or if he killed a policeman or a prison official, or more than one person, but not for other forms of murder. This resulted in ab surd situations where a killer who slew little children got away with imprisonment; yet if he took as little as a shilling from his victims, he was hanged...
...express a man's longings. The poignant intensity of O'Neill is that his spoken lines reach unerringly toward what cannot be spoken. Into Erie's speeches filters not the loneliness of country solitude, but the friendless desolation of big-city anonymity. The rattle of a policeman's billy on an iron railing, the rumble of a subway, the screams of fire sirens that punctuate Erie's monologue are illuminated gravestones of the heart. In the midst of life, Erie is, and will always be, in death...
...week Jon O. Newman, U S Attorney for Connecticut, ordered his staff to tell reporters nothing that might prejudice a defendant's rights. "If in doubt," admonished Newman's memo keep silent." A New Jersey Supreme Court judge recently imposed a similar silence on every lawyer and policeman the state. In Rochester, NY two men awaiting trial on gambling charges won a temporary injunction against publication of their police records by a local newspaper. If such intelligence got out, they claimed, it would impair their chances for an impartial trial. After a few days, however, the court canceled...