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Jerome Weidman, who wrote Fiorello!, has written a courtroom play called The Ivory Tower about a poet like Ezra Pound who is tried for treason for making wartime broadcasts telling American troops to lay down their arms (November). Franchot Tone stars in Bicycle Ride to Nevada, an adaptation of Barnaby Conrad's novel Dangerfield, which deals with a Nobel prizewinner novelist who has slid down his 50s into alcoholism (Sept. 26). Conrad was once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques...
...that Butts had given information to Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant to help highly favored Alabama whip a second-rate Georgia team 35-0 in its first game of the 1962 season. In Georgia, where college football commands violent loyalties, such charges were no less than an accusation of treason. Butts raced into court. Right behind him came Bear Bryant, who was already suing the Post for $500,000 because of an earlier article that said he taught brutal football. Bear now wanted $10 million more for having been accused of participating...
...revolutionary leader in Indo-China's war against the French. But after independence in 1954, he grew increasingly disenchanted with the authoritarian rule of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. Fortnight ago, Diem's government charged Tam and 34 others with treason by conspiring to overthrow the President in an abortive coup attempt in November 1960. It was just two days before the scheduled trial that Tam committed suicide, and he explained why in a note he left behind. "The arrest and trial of all nationalist opponents of the regime is a crime that will...
Dragging Feet. Diem's government moved quickly to head off demonstrations over Tam's death, posthumously acquitted him of all conspiracy charges at the Saigon treason trial. At the same time, the prosecutors tried to implicate the U.S. as being behind the 1960 coup; the charge was vigorously denied by the U.S. At the end of the trial, government judges sentenced 20 defendants to prison terms ranging from five to eight years; nine others who had fled the country after the attempted coup were sentenced to death in absentia...
...danger?" Accused of disloyalty to the U.S. because of his wartime broadcasts from Italy, Ezra Pound says broodingly, "T thought I was fighting for a constitutional point. I mean to say, T may have been completely nuts, but I certainly felt that it wasn't committing treason." Robert Frost, amused at being charged with conservatism, defines U.S. political parties in terms of sex: "The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat...