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...playwriting--Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and Arthur Miller. Williams had produced two masterpieces, The Glass Menagerie and A Strcetcar Named Desire. Miss Hellman had recently followed a long series of carefully wrought works with her crowning achievement, The Autumn Garden. Miller had written a masterpiece in Death of a Salesman, and had just produced a near-masterpiece with The Crucible, which among other things threw a heavy and much-needed punch at Senator McCarthy...
...occasional fuzzy lines and perhaps a disproportionate amount of time spent on the Miller-Monroe affair (though even this is doubtless the result of being true to its impact on the memory of Quentin-Miller), After the Fall is not so nearly perfect a creation as Death of a Salesman, but it is much more ambitious--both in content and in form. Miller wrote some 5,000 pages in order to get a working script of 180 pages, which took well over four hours to play. During the rehearsal period Miller trimmed and revised, and the work's two acts...
Stuttgart Salesman Wilhelm Boger, 57, onetime chief of the Auschwitz intelligence system, boasted that the place had the lowest escape rate of any Nazi concentration camp. Boger was the inventor of a torture rack known as the "Boger swing," in which the victim-bound hand and foot and swinging from a beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick...
...that most inhabitants have known for years comes live and fourfooted. But Argentine stock salesmen-the portfolio kind-know that back-country men have money too, much of it stashed away in drawers or secret hiding places. They have learned how to rope and brand it. When a securities salesman stopped his car outside a doctor's office in Córdoba province recently, an old man in rags stuck his head through the car's open window. "How much are the Ledesma shares?" he asked. The surprised salesman quickly quoted a price. "I'll take...
...collar workers. They use compelling means to part the country people-many of them prosperous from land and cattle-from their idle money. One that works best is flashing an early 100-peso bill bearing the signature of Eusebio Campos, a former Argentine Central Bank official. "That man," the salesman says, "is now one of our directors...