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Death of a Salesman--Charles Playhouse...
...California ranch looks like a log cabin ("It is," protests Nancy). No central heat. No wine cellar. Two bedrooms. Three cattle. Six horses. Three McCulloch chain saws (for cutting firewood). One old Jeep. One decrepit tractor. (When a John Deere executive saw Reagan's tractor, he dispatched a salesman to make a deal. The President was told that for $58,000 and his old model, he could get the tractor of his dreams. "Forget it," Reagan answered...
...cracked the case by first amassing evidence against bribe-paying contractors. Two of the contractors-Lumber Mill Owner Dorothy Griffin and Building Materials Salesman Guy Moore-were persuaded to help investigators catch fellow suppliers and the recipients of their largesse. Scores of transactions-conducted in pickup trucks and county maintenance barns-were tape-recorded. Moore claims that in 28 years of business, he arranged, on the average, more than one bribe every working...
DIED. Joseph Hirsch, 71, Philadelphia-born artist whose boldly realistic paintings, etchings and lithographs often depicted scenes of social injustice or corruption; of cancer; in New York City. In 1949, asked to create a poster for Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Hirsch produced the poignant drawing of a stooped Willy Loman that became famous worldwide as a symbol of the play...
...night as if it has swallowed the moon"); a moment in January ("It is cold, a day that might bring snow, a day that feels hollow"). These moments, and many others like them, shed radiance on Rabbit and his surroundings, the very glow of transcendence that this overweight car salesman still, stubbornly, thinks of as his birthright. He does not always see it, but Updike's readers are granted this vision and something more: a superlative comic novel that is also an American romance. -By Paul Gray -While he was writing Rabbit, Run, more than 20 years ago, John...