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Normally, against such a half-cocked prosecution, even a fledgling Perry Mason ought to be able to spring his client in a fair trial. But Crawford, 37, a service representative for International Harvester, was being tried in a dingy Moscow courtroom on obviously trumped-up charges that he had violated Soviet law by exchanging $8,500 for 20,000 rubles with Soviet black marketeers over a 14-month period. (At the official exchange rate, $8,500 buys 5,903 rubles.) Despite Crawford's protestations of innocence, along with what Western court observers called an unusually spirited defense...
...Island), they may fare better than the lameduck series that they will preempt. Among them are such rock-bottom offerings as Sword of Justice (Sept. 10, 8 p.m. E.D.T.), a contemporary rehash of Zorro, and The Eddie Capra Mysteries (Sept. 8, 9 p.m.), yet another rip-off of Perry Mason. Though Grandpa Goes to Washington (Sept. 7, 9 p.m.) has Jack Albertson playing a U.S. Senator, it seems as old-hat as The Farmer's Daughter. NBC's principal new sitcom, The Waverly Wonders (Sept. 7, 8 p.m.), boasts a surprisingly ingratiating star in Joe Namath...
DIED. F. van Wyck Mason, 76, prolific and bestselling historical novelist (among his more than 60 books: Three Harbours, Stars on the Sea, Cutlass Empire); of a heart attack while swimming; near Southampton, Bermuda. A skilled storyteller especially interested in colonial and Civil War America, Mason embellished his complex plots with minute detail and romantic flourish. He also penned a popular series of tales of intrigue featuring Captain (later Major and Colonel) Hugh North, and during World War II served as chief military historian for Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF command...
...corruption that may always endanger the delicate relationship between the lobbyist and the lobbied. Yet until the recent reforms in Congress, the modern lobbyist's most effective tactic was to concentrate on the committees where the vital decisions were made. A few decades ago, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Lobbyist Walter Mason helped labor's cause by getting Pennsylvania Republican Carroll Kearns so drunk on the nights before key meetings of the House Education and Labor Committee that he was unable to cast his usual antilabor vote...
...aims high and has tried to grapple with serious matters, but the writing is diffuse and the characterization thin. Moreover, the pacing is jerky; there is just too much stop-and-go. This is in the text itself, and should not be blamed on the director, Marshall W. Mason, who has done his best...