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Page 14, PHOENIX, May 16, 1914 Who judges the judges' judges?( ON riNUHD KKOM PACK IIsteaks.. We never hear what Lindsay eats or drinks. %u201c ... forty-two men died at Attica because Nelson Rockefeller would not go to the prison and join in the negotiations.\prisons during riots and he turned his back on the beatings described above, and broke his promise of no reprisals. True, he didn%u2019t arm his police with dum-dum bullets as Rocky did.But Lindsay%u2019s prisons in some ways, at least according to Newfield%u2019s own stories, were worse than Attica. For example, in Attica we learn that prisoners only get a change of underwear once a week. But when Newfield and Congressman EdwardI. Koch visited one of Lindsay%u2019s prisons, they found a man who hadn%u2019t had a change of underwear in 6 months! Similarly, Newfield says that in Lindsay%u2019s prisons, the jail population is %u201clooked in [its] cells twenty-one hours a day%u201d but elsewhere he reports that %u201call summer the inmates of Attica have spent 15 and Vz hours of every day locked in their cells.%u201d Sounds like paradise compared to Lindsay%u2019s prisons! And we never learn whether or or not Lindsay eats steak.The final example I will give of Newfield%u2019s unevenhandedness, and one which demonstrates that one rhetorician is a sucker for another, appears in the book%u2019s final pages. Newfield describesJohn Lindsay%u2019s stirring speech to the Bar Association in 1968, %u201cone of the best speeches of his career, a speech that ended with a summons- to the legal profession to abolish the marshal system.%u201d Lindsay even quoted Edmund Burke. And then, Newfield points out, \honorably refused to appoint a single new marshal. %u201cBut,%u201d writes Newfield, without any explanation of what pressures may have changed Lindsay%u2019s mind, %u201cin April of 1971, Lindsay suddenly abandoned his opposition to the marshals, and since then he has appointed, or reappointed, fifty-one of them.%u201d Yet Newfield claims that %u201cLindsay%u2019s good intentions, however, deserve some acknowledgement. Incontrast, former Mayor Robert Wagner appointed twelve marshals on his last day in office in 1965.%u201d Well, I say, at least Wagner could be credited with sparing us righteous rhetoric.In my book, a person is what he does, not what he says. In Jack%u2019s, people are whatever he wants them to be.There is a real question in my mind about why Jack Newfield had to look for %u201ca decent judge in a rotten system%u201d at all. Who influences Jack Newfield? Is it late night sessions in %u201cJimmy%u2019s\Aurelio, Mattie Troy, Jimmy Breslin or Pete Hamil (the self-appointed ethnic and folk heroes of New York politics)? I wonder what makes Jackie run. %u25a0Y&l %l / j ,%u00b0 O ' ' ^ T 7WRITERS%u2019 %u201c UNSALEABLE%u201d MANUSCRIPTSTry AUTHOR AID ASSOCIATED, Dept WSLS, 340 East 52nd St., N.Y.C. 10022. Plaza 8-4213PROSPECT%u201e, PARKa n t iq u e s6 5 5 VANDERBILT A%u00ab 6 3 8 -5 0 8 1 CHANDELIERS GLASSWARE $sLs>A ntiq u e ^ p e r io d Fu r n it u r eTravel a few b lo c k s %u00b0 save a lot !'w. /u-v . < V QV Q >o,%u2022 %H . .-v.&AvonEquinox Editions, $2.45 each\PUBLISHING A BOOK OR BOOKLET?Our free folder explains a low-cost program. The William-Frederick Press 55 East 86th St., N.Y.. N.Y. 10028BOOKPLATESFREE CATALOG. Scores of beautiful designs. Antioch Bookplates. Box 28L, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387N?I Hie Community Bookstore of Pmk Slope j| w ill open a good bookstore on |I Montague Street |i f eIf you have a product or service that you want to advertise in conjunction with the Literary Review,CaU: 643-1032The Literary Reviewwill be a once-a-m onth featureof The PHOENIX%u2014 -%u00a32L%u2014it h e p h o e n i x4.y o < J H S E L L e ** FRAMING / MOUNTING / A R T SUPPLIES* CUSTOM FRAMING & RESTORIN G SINCE 1945SAN ART STUDIO BLDG. 15 7th Av. OFF FLATBUSH AVE. 638-7526 TUES. WED. THURS. 1-10 PM. FRI. & SAT, 1-6 PMCATHEDRALHu- Storv of Its (%u2019oust met ion10% discount with this adon ''Cathedral'1, by David macauiayAaes 8 to senility $6.95This richly illustrated book shows the step by step process of the Cathedral's growth. The details of the construction are graphically e.'plrvnedchild%u2019 s play 226 ATLANTIC AVENUE BROOKLYN, N Y. 237 - 2656The only bookstore for kids in the Northeast