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Louise H. Shearin Crofton...
Director John D. Shearin has applied a light but firm touch to his enterprise and his talented company, avoiding overdoing a script easily overdone and providing a fluent, entertaining piece of theater. The fast and funny domestic dialogue, like the banter in any household, conveys surprisingly complex meaning and tension through its trivial irrelevance and presents a challenge of interpretation which the production meets. Dealing with an obvious though not unambiguous "message play," the Loeb group meets the problem of getting the message across without hammering it in. Odets-a short-term Communist Party member who quit because...
Like most of the other 25 judges who spent a day as mock convicts in Nevada State Prison last summer, Plummer Shearin of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Md., came away shaken by the experience. But he saw a way to help at least one of the real prisoners. During seminars with "con-sultants," he had met and been impressed by Thomas Eisentrager, 48, a lifer. Checking further, Shearin found that Eisentrager was also highly regarded by both prison officials and fellow convicts for his thoughtful views on penology and probation, his reliability in prison jobs and his efforts...
...Element. The apparent finality did not daunt Shearin. He offered to take custody of Eisentrager and lined up a job for him as a probation counselor in Gaithersburg, Md. Last month he returned to Nevada to plead Eisentrager's case before the parole board. Though it had unanimously turned down the convict's parole bid once before, the board this time voted 4 to 2 for his release. One of the dissenters, Justice John Mowbray, who had sentenced Eisentrager originally, asked, "Why is this man being treated any differently than any lifer? Others in his same position think...
Married. Samuel Insull Jr., 36, utilitarian; and Margaret Shearin Baynes, 30, millinery buyer; in Chicago...
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