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...scrumptious Maryland crab salad, sends him tooting off on a tour of the farm with an oversexed daughter (Debbie Reynolds) who reclines invitingly in the first patch of tall grass she can find. By the time Tony gets back to the farmhouse, two of Debbie's grade-schoolboy brothers have helpfully removed the engine from his car-they are giving him, they announce, a free "ring job." At about this point, poor Tony is driven to drink (something called a Laughing Hyena: one part vermouth, two parts gin, three parts whisky). After which he of course starts to laugh...
Paul Baker began acting in plays while he was a schoolboy in Waxahachie, Texas, went on to study drama at the town's Trinity University. In 1933 he studied at Yale under the university's late famed Drama Professor George Pierce Baker (no kin). Next year he had set up a shop in a onetime chapel at Baylor, produced an experimental play. All the while he inveighed against the restrictions of conventional theaters-theaters with "one box for the actor and another box for the audience and that's all." The first thing he decided...
...every U.S. schoolboy learns, the Bill of Rights struck down tyranny's "double jeopardy" practice of trying a man more than once for the same crime. But, as any well-educated lawyer knows, a long procession of Supreme Court decisions holds that separate trial by federal and state courts for the same crime is not considered to be double jeopardy. Last week the Supreme Court stuck by precedent in two cases involving federal and state trials-surprising the schoolboys and drawing a stinging dissent from a minority of three of the court's own members...
...human experience," to pluck the most exotic flowers of evil. Murder, Artie decides, is the only thing that will satisfy his compulsion "to do something really dangerous," and Judd loyally approves "the perfect crime" as "the true test of the superior intellect." So they kidnap a 14-year-old schoolboy named Paulie Kessler (fictional name for Bobby Franks), cosh-kill him in the back of a rented car, and dump the body in a culvert. Remorse? Artie seems incapable of human feeling. But thoughtful, sensitive Judd protests too much: "Murder's nothing! It's just a simple experience...
Britain's great civil war began in 1642. It is still being fought. Every schoolboy, guided more by his own temperament than historical fact, still takes sides as a dashing Cavalier or a solid Roundhead-which is perhaps one reason why modern Britain rests its institutions in an all-powerful Parliament but reserves its affections for a powerless monarchy. In Volume II of her great history, which carries on from The King's Peace, Historian C. V. (for Cicely Veronica) Wedgwood touches this national nerve of double loyalty and lets it enliven what would otherwise be dreary years...