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Last job held: M.P. and War Minister. Reason for leaving: caught out in lie which opened question to whole moral character. With a resume like that a man might as well forget it, but John Profumo, 49, last week started in as a nonsalaried assistant to the warden of Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house. Explained the newborn social worker: "Believe me, this is no stunt. I want to forget the past...
...metal bunk serves as a digging tool. Two stolen medicine bottles filled with sand make an hourglass to time the long, seemingly hopeless task of chipping through concrete sewer walls and treacherous rock. On the afternoon of the last day before the escape, Gaspard is suddenly called to the warden's office. Two hours later he returns to the cells, insisting he has said nothing to betray his comrades, and the drama hurtles toward a shock climax that suddenly becomes less a saga of physical endurance than a test of one man's moral strength...
DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS-New Art Center, 1193 Lexington Ave. at 81st. His huge mural left unfinished in Chapultepec Castle, Mexican Communist Siqueiros, 67, has for 31 years sat in prison serving time for "social dissolution." But the warden lets him paint, and his dancing brush creates images somersaulting and swirling far from a prison courtyard. Through...
...victim is seated in Sweeney's barber chair, a lever is pulled, and chug, chug, chug--the infernal contraption hauls the fellow off to be chopped up for the filling of veal pies. Sweeney's activities affect a wide circle of people including a hypocritical parson, an asylum warden, a judge, various military gentlemen, a tubercular heroine, and other hangers...
...reluctance to take tougher action, no doubt, was the fact that among Lovett's staunchest supporters is a group of Atlanta's richest and most influential people who also happen to be pillars of the Episcopal Church. An example is wealthy Lawyer Philip Alston Jr., a senior warden of St. Luke's parish. Since 1959 he has personally been responsible for raising more than $350,000 for Lovett's building program-including one gift of $100,000 that was contingent upon the school's remaining closed to Negroes...