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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Author Crowther retells the familiar story of how the ambitious son of Russian immigrants parlayed ownership of a Haverhill, Mass, nickelodeon into the Hollywood eminence that earned him the highest salary in the U.S. for seven years in a row ($1,139,992 in 1943). What makes the biography unusual is the gossip columnist's relish with which normally dignified Critic Crowther rummages through Mayer's private life...
...spring thaw in interest rates last week showed signs of turning into a freshet of easier money. For the third week in a row, the average yield of 91-day Treasury bills dropped sharply, hit 3.03%, lowest since the 2.87% yield last May 25, and well below the record 4.67% just before Christmas. Other short-and long-term rates were also well down from their peaks...
Intricate Combination. The vigor and eloquence of the appeals, delivered from the unique platform of Death Row, have caught the public ear as they once caught the ear of cops, judges and social workers when Chessman began his life of crime back in the 1930s. Caryl Chessman was a bumbling criminal, but he had a special genius: he has always known by instinct the intricate combinations that lead to the law's heart. In his teens he won second chances (for more crime) with a patter of contrition and redemption. ("I now see crime in its true light...
...indictments later charged, an "unnatural sex act." One of the victims, a girl of 17, was also forced to submit to "attempted rape." The girl later sank into schizophrenia, has been confined to a state hospital for nearly as long as Caryl Chessman has been confined on Death Row. Some psychiatrists think that the ordeal inflicted upon her by the gunman is partly to blame for her mental illness...
...followed it with two comparatively feeble accounts of his Death Row years, Trial by Ordeal and The Face of Justice, and then a novel, first published in Europe and scheduled for publication in the U.S. next month as Obsession...