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...talks continued behind a wall of privacy calculated to give the participants a chance to thresh out their problems without distractions. At least once a day, Ike's deadpanned Press Secretary Jim Hagerty and Macmillan's ebullient Pressman Peter Hope briefed newsmen at hectic conferences held in a Gettysburg gymnasium 25 miles away from Camp David. Reporters generally had to follow Hagerty and Hope to their hotel rooms for private briefings on what the other briefings had actually been about. Then they returned to the gymnasium for still more clarifying explanations-from each other. But gradually, despite...
...bush, grabbed a handful of men while the majority filtered into the darkness. When the handful was ordered court-martialed, the trial became a celebrated case. ESPPs at the Chemical Center and other ESPP "campuses" chipped in $300 to a defense fund, hired flamboyant Baltimore Lawyer Hyman Pressman, a longtime expert at fighting for desperate causes...
...Pressman's defense last week was flashy but futile. He challenged officers assigned to sit on the court until the court was left with only one major and two warrant officers. He argued that the cops had no evidence that the accused were noisemakers, produced neighbors who said that the party had been orderly. But his defense character witnesses were no help: they were fellow ESPPs, who bristled the court by admitting under cross-examination that they hated the Army. At trial's end the three-man court deliberated six hours, found the ten defendants guilty, fined them...
...that of Whitfield Connor playing Victor Milgrim, the Mephistophelean movie producer. Jason Robards Sr. gives an equally moving performance as Hallidy's benevolent publisher. This is the senior Robards' first appearance on the stage in nineteen years. The rest of the supporting roles are adequately handled, as is David Pressman's direction. The multi-purpose sets of Ben Edwards deserve special attention...
Push-Pull Power. Even in such company, a 29-year-old pressman for the Los Angeles Times stood out from the start. Calm, calculating Marion ("Mickey") Thompson had put together an $8,000 streamliner that seemed to howl with speed just standing still. For push-pull power, Thompson remade two 1957 Chrysler engines and geared the first to the front wheels and the second to the back. To soup up the engines to a total of 850 h.p., Thompson and his buddy, Fred Voigt, added a magneto to each for hot-spark firing (standard ignition gradually weakens as engine speed...