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...were filling bottles and stone jugs for delivery to the crowded inns. In a warehouse by the docks, Kazuyoshi Kitamura was pouring gasoline from a drum into a five-gallon can. Yoshio Suzuki lounged about, watching Kazuyoshi. Yoshio, a hulking youth, as slow-witted as Lennie in John Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men, had an unlit cigarette in his mouth; he pointed to it and glanced a question at Kazuyoshi. "This gasoline won't burn," said Kazuyoshi with a sarcasm that was lost on simple Yoshio. Yoshio lit his cigarette, tossed the match on some spilled gasoline...
Eleven years ago, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath carried the hapless Joad family westward on highway 66 to a life of debased poverty on California's big, corporate-owned farms. Since then the story of the impoverished migrant worker in the rich San Joaquin Valley had been told with seasonal regularity in fiction and fact. And sometimes the two got badly mixed, as a congressional subcommittee on education and labor reported scathingly last week...
Final judges of the contest are John Steinbeck, author: Charles M. Underhill '30, program director of CBS Television Network, and Donald Davis, dramatist, screen writer, and CBS-TV producer...
University Theater (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath...
Author John Steinbeck's estranged wife, Gwyn Conger Steinbeck, temporarily settled in Reno for a routine divorce, got mixed up in ugly complications. Her occasional dinner partner, Denverite Leonard J. Wolff, morose over his own divorce and out $86,000 on the night's gambling, brought her home one morning, 45 minutes later blew his brains out. Authorities cleared Gwyn of any connection with the suicide, declared that she was a victim of circumstances ("it could have happened to any girl...