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...Gawky Swan. In Act I a sisterhood of suffering assembles, and more verbal feline ferocity has not gone zinging across a Broadway stage since Clare Boothe Luce wrote The Women. Three divorcees have arranged for their ex-husbands to take the children for an outing in honor of the day. Louise (Brenda Vaccaro) is an earthy exactress with a tongue like a wood file. Marian (Marian Seldes) is a gawky swan of a woman who can deliver lines with the edgily lethal politesse of a Boston blueblood. Estelle (Jennifer Salt) is the quintessential waif, an orphan who married an orphan...
...DEAN MAY announces creation of new Committee on Roger Rosenblatt and Curriculum Reform. "Curriculum Reform is a dead issue but Roger isn't yet," May is reported to have said around the pool at the Belmont Community Center. Shown above is Professor JAMES Q. WILSON, demonstrating the swan dive he has perfected while on sabbatical, as Dean MAY and his predecessor FRED GLIMP, now a member of the Belmont School Board, discuss ways of revitalizing Harvard College...
...Trumpet of the Swan (Harper & Row, $4.50) is only the third book in 25 years by E.B. White. Nevertheless, he is the one living American writer whose words have done most to prove that a children's book can be a work of art and a thing of enduring charm and usefulness. Stuart Little (1945) still reigns pretty much supreme in the small-furry-animal-in-spats market. Charlotte's Web (1952), which has just been released again on Pathways of Sound records with White himself reading aloud, is a masterpiece about love and death...
...committee's closed hearings. The U.S. Army prosecutor rested the case against Mitchell after only six hours. Just three witnesses were called by the prosecution, although 14 had been subpoenaed and seven were at Fort Hood waiting to take the stand. At that time Prosecutor Captain Michael Swan tried to dismiss speculation that the abbreviated case was an attempt to whitewash the events at My Lai by asserting that his three witnesses had proved the charges...
...ditch." The testimony of a prosecution witness, Dennis Conti, was weakened when fellow Army witnesses swore that they had heard Conti declare: "He [Mitchell] tried to get me killed in the field. I don't care if they hang him now." Mitchell took the stand and, when Captain Swan asked him about his role in the assault on the village, burst into tears and said, "I've been thinking about it for a year and a half and I'm positive I shot...