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...Write My Epitaph (Columbia). The heroine (Shelley Winters) is on heroin. "Louie, please!" she gasps. "I need a fix! Ya gotta gimme a fix!" In this picture, unhappily, the story as well as the heroine needs a shot in the arm. Based on Novelist Willard Motley's sequel to Knock on Any Door (TIME, March 14, 1949), which made a substantial score as a Hollywood thriller, Epitaph is just a scummy rescrape of the sidewalks of Chicago...
Sunday at noon Willard Uphaus was freed from jail and from the political paranoia of the state that imprisoned him. By subjecting Uphaus and his organization to "exposure for exposure's sake," the New Hampshire legislature and Attorney-General Wyman denied them the right of group association that is essential to freedom of assembly. Obsessed with a suspicion of "out-of-state" ideas and people, state authorities arbitrarily limited the number and length of visits to the 70-year-old pacifist. Now, the Superior Court has finally refused to keep him in jail any longer...
...more conspicuous. At the same time, supporters of civil disobedience such as Uphaus will have to adjust their news to the idea that this defiance of the Court rests on the same grounds as that of many segregationists. Finally, if New Hampshire is not to repeat the story of Willard Uphaus, to its own national and perhaps international discredit, its leaders and people must cure themselves of their stultifying suspicion of the foreign and unfamiliar...
David Kipps, the night dispatcher at the Hospital Ambulance. Oxygen & Equipment Co., put the telephone back on its cradle and called out to Driver Willard Baucom. "Emergency call." he said. "Go to 3307 N Street, N.W., and pick up a Mrs. Kennedy." Then the significance of his message slowly dawned on Kipps. "At first it didn't register at all." he recalled later. "When it did, I got really excited...
...values of his religious group, and the Bible, is just the one made by defenders of segregation. There is a fundamental conflict here. The irony of this case is that in employing civil disobedience and challenging the authority of the Supreme Court--but not in just criticizing it--Willard Uphaus might in the long run impair its development as the defender of civil rights and civil liberties...