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...little farther on stands a house that at one point in the battle served as the command post for a Marine company. A batch of tired newspapermen, including Greenway, rested there one night during the fighting and someone found a bottle of whisky and passed it around. The owner of the house is back now and, when told about the bottle, she smiles: "I suspected it was the Marines, but I didn't mind," she says. "The ARVN paratroopers took everything, you know. They came around with great sacks and took my husband's clothes, his shirts...
...players: "Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, George E. Stone, Frankie Darro, Warren Hymer, Nat Pendleton, and the Woman Across the Bay, Ann Dvorak." But now, judging from Riot, the big house has gone mod, and there is no need for such durable old stereotypes. Riot concocts a fresh new batch...
Queens Row. Unlike the relatively benign characters in the Warner Bros, pen epics, however, the cons in Riot are a pretty unattractive bunch. They talk dirty and act even worse: they make squealers run a gauntlet, brew up a batch of raisin jack and get high and try to seduce one another in a cell block called Queens Row. The character that Bruce called "the handsome but mixed-up prison doctor, H. B. Warner," has been replaced by a sissified head-shrinker whom the men lovingly refer to as "that faggot psychologist." The warden, usually portrayed as tough but sympathetic...
...well as anyone that his music was way ahead of its day. "My time will come," he said. And now it has. Today the record companies lavish the kind of attention on him that they used to reserve for Beethoven and Brahms. Some choice items from a recent batch...
...mother, who lives in Norwich, England, or to his girl friend, Shirley McGuinn, who lives in London. He desperately awaits their return letters. He can see the mail arrive in the court yard, but he must then wait for the guard to deliver it, usually in a batch, days later. His own letters, guarded and understated, convey the agony of isolation. "You often say you hope I am keeping cheerful," he recently wrote his mother. "It would be quite dishonest to say I was cheerful. After more than a year in one room, it simply is not possible. Somehow...