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Robert S. Speight Tehran, Iran...
...Family. In its original television version, called Till Death Us Do Part, it enjoyed enormous success, but the Alf of the series and of this caustic film (Warren Mitchell) is no lovable oaf like Archie Bunker. He is a meanspirited, loudmouthed, craven boozer who is portrayed by Writer Johnny Speight and Director Norman Cohen with deadly dispassion...
...birth of a daughter last year, got to the quarter finals of the National Singles championships at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pa. before bowing out. But Betty was at the top of her driving game, methodically rolled into the finals, disposed of Britain's Mrs. Sheila Speight Mclntosh to win her fourth straight title-the tenth national championship for the House of Howe...
...precise, monocled German psychiatrist attempted to convince three U.S. judges-Fred Cohn, John Speight and Herman Elegant-that Yvette was of unsound mind. Immaculate in morning coat and pinstriped trousers, Professor Karl Kleist testified that Mrs. Madsen was reacting to a deep-seated persecution complex when she shot her husband for laughing at her Brooklynese. "As far as I am informed," explained the professor, "this is the dialect of the common people. Since it revealed Mrs. Madsen's common origin, she felt insulted...
...Hang me! Hang me if you want," screamed Yvette at this final insult, "but make him stop!" "Shut up," implored her long-suffering father. After that, Yvette cut him dead. At trial's end, Judges Cohn, Speight and Elegant concluded that Yvette was undoubtedly "a psychopathic personality," but sane enough to know what she was doing. They sentenced her to 15 years in the U.S. reformatory at Alderson, W.Va...