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...then half the town was after the marshal's hide. Last week they called a meeting and tried to get Earl fired. "He jumps out at cars and starts waving this flashlight at them," said Mrs. Carl Hollowell. "If you were a stranger going through town, would you stop? Then he pulls a gun on you and starts shooting. The other day he was walking down the main street with a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun in his hands. I tell you, everybody's life in town is in danger with that man loose...
Pointing a finger at Schoolteacher Franklyn Olson, 23, the justice of the peace intoned: "Young man, your crime is as serious as if you had given them marijuana cigarettes." Olson's crime: assigning five schoolboys in Thompson, Mich, to read The Stranger, by France's late Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Albert Camus. Olson's sentence: a $100 fine and 90 days in the county jail...
Last spring Olson submitted a new bid for this year of $4,100, and his contract was not renewed. But long before this error, Olson had made another. When five average-bright boys in his room shunned all reading, Olson remembered The Stranger's powers. To get them interested in reading, he gave the lads paperback editions of the book, assigned the first chapter. In short order, one 13-year-old's mother discovered "obscene" passages. She called another mother, who called the school board, which called the state police, who arrested Olson. In his nearby home town...
Health seemed to be a big issue in last week's primary. In the Senate race, labor-backed Democratic Incumbent Pat McNamara, 65, kept busy denying that his recent prostate operation was for cancer. The Republican who was nominated to run against him is also no stranger to physical infirmity: Congressman Alvin Bentley, 41, a multimillionaire by inheritance and an early backer of the late Senator Joe McCarthy, was almost killed on the floor of the House in March 1954 when three armed Puerto Rican nationalists in the gallery began spraying the House floor with bullets. The most seriously...
When the two were married the following year, Magrina became her manager. What led him to reject a law career, he says, was the realization that she would need a manager and that such a responsibility should not fall to a stranger: "At least I am honest and sincere." Magrina claims responsibility for having persuaded De los Angeles to leave Spain for the more lucra tive climate of La Scala and the Met. Today he handles all contract negotiations, has long since become inured to being addressed by his wife's name. Says he: "Victoria sings, but later...