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Championship Debate (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Teams of Kings College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and George Washington University, Washington, D.C., debate the question: "Should the Peace Corps Be Abolished?"
As Good as the Count's. The life of Samuel Henry Kress could have been written by Horatio Alger, except for the fact that Kress never married the boss's daughter. Born in Cherryville. Pa., in 1863, he grew up a bookish boy who at 17 landed a...
The Judges of the Secret Court, by David Stacton. The author, a historical novelist (On a Balcony) of rare skill, writes a bitter account of the death of Assassin John Wilkes Booth and the trial and execution of the forlorn set of dupes and fools named as his fellow conspirators...
"Historical novelists seldom write in anger. In telling about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his killer, John Wilkes Booth, and the near-farcical trial of Booth's fellow "conspirators," Author Stacton is clearly angry, but not at Booth; shrewdly enough, he treats him with pitying contempt. His target is...
Author Stacton has the knack of making even his novelist's liberties seem like living history. His John Wilkes Booth is all actor-shallow, vain and no more determined to eliminate Lincoln from the stage of history than to give John Wilkes a place on it. With his good...