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With the House of Commons already on record for abolition of capital punishment (TIME, Feb. 27), Britain's Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 45, whose family has monopolized Britain's gallows trade for 85 years, quit his $42-a-job sideline. Although three murderers now await execution, Nooseman Pierrepoint prefers henceforth to work full time in The Rose and Crown, his three-century-old pub near Blackpool...
...heathens." What I Think is thus a very unusual book. Published by a Presidential candidate in the middle of his campaign, it reveals a unique combination of political realism with an unsurrendered intellectual idealism. Yet although the book reviewers may speak now, the real judgement must await next November...
Last night's statement of resignation repudiates that agreement. "We wish to state, for the benefit of the entire Harvard community, that we are still here, and we intend to remain for a long time." The statement continued: "We welcome the continued cooperation of our friends and sympathizers; we await the attacks of our enemies. We will make no deals. We will not fade away. We will not be driven into the ground...
...Town, Phoenix '55) has become one of the theater's most wildly and continuously funny clowns, capable of rowdy hauteurs and of a stare that could blight fruit. To Coward's drawingroom yarn of two bored young wives who jointly, jealously, at length drunkenly await the arrival of a Frenchman they both sinned with years before, she brings nothing so conventional as a fresh approach, but rather a superbly irrelevant new dimension...
...that the Place took on poetic hues in the candlelight, a ceiling of darkness closed in each booth, and voices whispered in a romantic hush. "But we don't plan to make either the candles or the dulcet voices a permanent part of our atmosphere," Cronin said. "We will await future happy misadventures in the Cambridge electric power for repetitions of the occasion...