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...whom signed confessions, quietly waited out their trial. Some of them changed their stories ("I didn't see nobody do nothin' "), protested that they had been beaten into confessions by the police. Last week, after 24 hours of discussion, the jury wound up the city's longest murder trial (14 weeks, 6,000 pages of testimony). Verdict: three defendants were acquitted; two were convicted of murder in the second degree (sentence: 20 years to life), two of manslaughter in the second degree (maximum penalty: 15 years). The guilty four...
...Blind Mice. Author Christie later expanded it into a stage play, The Mousetrap, thought it might run a couple of months at best. The day after The Mousetrap gave its 2,239th performance at London's Ambassadors' Theater, thus passing the musical Chu Chin Chow as the longest-running play in British stage history.* Producer Peter Saunders gave a hotel-jamming party for a few (1,000) friends, who cheered as Author Christie presented the theater with a gold-and-silver mousetrap. Murmured she on the triumph: "I suppose it's just like making sauce. Sometimes...
Death Be Not Proud. Insider Gunther, who says he "would give all those Insides to have written one good short story," is still writing bad ones. He has published four uncelebrated novels. His longest-remembered work, nonetheless, is less likely to be one of the Insides than a short (261 pages) book called Death Be Not Proud-a tender, harrowing vignette of valor and suffering...
Airman Thach confidently expects to learn the art-and soon. Says he: "This is like a chess game; each piece has a different value. By playing them together, by using the submarine-which has the biggest ears-and the aircraft-which has the longest punch-and the airship-which has the quietest touch-you win your game...
Just after sunset one night last week, a flight of U.S. Air Force B-47 jet bombers streaked across the purple Guadarrama Mountains and slid onto Western Europe's longest runway, the new 13,400-ft. strip of the U.S. Strategic Air Commands Torrejon Air Base, 13 miles northeast of Madrid. Looking down on the serried ranks of bombers on the once-empty apron, a U.S. control-tower operator crowed: "Man, are we ever in business...