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...that might be remotely 'Southern' in context was deleted or altered. A geographical change was made to a New England town. When it was ultimately produced, its thesis had been diluted, and my characters had mounted a soapbox to shout something that had become too vague to warrant any shouting...
...Shame to the Cause." Before his arrest, without a warrant, Alleg had been hiding out for months to escape internment after the banning of Alger Républicain, the Communist daily that he edited 1950-55. He wrote The Question four months after he was tortured, managed to smuggle it out of the civil prison in Algiers where he is still held on the charge of "endangering the safety of the State...
...with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached in a well-pressed lounge suit, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette after he signed Christ's death warrant. The Roman soldiers were simple types in British battle dress...
...most influential Communist in the Western Hemisphere, Brazil's Luis Carlos Prestes, last week won the right to reappear in public. A Rio judge struck down a warrant for Prestes' "preventive" arrest, which has kept him underground for ten years. This week Prestes is supposed to come out of hiding and sign the judge's terms for his conditional freedom (e.g., he must report twice a month) while he awaits trial-months hence, if ever-on charges of sedition...
While Los Angeles and San Francisco dailies are splashing news of the Dodgers and San Francisco's Giants, New York newspapers had not decided last week whether old loyalty to the westering prodigals will be strong enough to warrant staff coverage of West Coast games beyond the first weeks of the season...