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Chief champion of the Kensington stone is Hjalmar Holand, 81, of Ephraim, Wis., who has made a career out of writing and lecturing about it. His principal argument: Farmer Ohman was too unlettered (six weeks of schooling) to fake the runic inscription, and he had no books to help him. Skeptical scholars have pointed to many oddities in the stone's language, but this pale, negative tactic has not laid the ghosts of the Minnesota Vikings. Both popular and learned belief in it is still strong. Professor Wahlgren felt that positive action was needed...
...even at its best, when its two stars were effectively defiant or hysterical, the play had only a stagy force. For the most part, it was loaded with exposition and limp from reminiscence; nor would the suspicion down that Starcross was no less a bore than he was a fake...
Through and around these scenes sweeps Edna Best, wearing a stomacher, a red wig and a putty nose. Though a skilled actress, she is miscast and overplays the vulgarity of her role as she declaims fake-heroic verses, shouts uncomfortably ribald asides, and trails behind her a retinue of hairdressers, manicurists and poets. William Windom and Harry Bannister are effective as youthful and aged incarnations of women-chasers. Superbly costumed by Motley, Colombe is played against Boris Aronson's fine settings-a gauzy, grey-and-golden evocation of the Paris of yesteryear. The language of the Kronenberger adaptation...
...There was the hot night in St. Louis when the Rabbit dived fully clothed into a fountain pool (though he always denied that he came gurgling to the surface with a goldfish clenched in his teeth). There was the time when he was playing in Brooklyn and staged a fake killing, complete with gunshot, that was daffy enough even by Dodger standards. And there was the time when he got news of his appointment as manager of the Chicago Cubs. "A'nice way to celebrate this," mused the Rabbit, "would be to fight a couple of Irish cops...
Following the vote, Vishinsky launched a further attack on the American case, denouncing it as "a falsification, a fake and utterly spurious...