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...into the corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were taken to the island as part of the fraternity's initiation rites and told to play the part of war prisoners withholding military secrets. Playing Fitzgerald's interrogator was James Savino, 21, a cadet officer in the ROTC unit. Savino emphasized his questions by jabbing a knife into the narrow plaque.Somehow one jab missed the target. The knife plunged through the main artery of Fitzgerald's heart, killing...
...wake of the tragedy, Savino was charged with second-degree murder; ROTC headquarters assigned an inspector-general to investigate the incident; St. John's suspended the fraternity pending the outcome of a university inquiry. Even before their full-scale investigations began, both the ROTC and St. John's disputed the police version that the fatal stabbing stemmed from hazing. One ROTC officer suggested that the Pershing Rifles were simply conducting unauthorized training maneuvers. That theory raised the question of why only the pledges played the roles of P.O.W.s. As for St. John's, its spokesman noted that...
...posturing, his gambling with cigarettes or human lives, is often too funny for comfort or credibility. A continuous lack of subtlety brought out the more humorous sides of the situation, and only towards the very end, in a scene like the one in which he gets Chief Bromden (Frank Savino) to talk, does the underlying seriousness become apparent. Faced with the prospect of remaining "committed" for life, he keeps up his laughter, if desperately, finally realizing that "you gotta laugh, especially when things sin't so funny...
FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES is a sometimes shocking drama about homosexuality in a prison. Frank Vohs and Frank Savino play Queenie and Smitty at the Hampton Playhouse, Hampton...