In a letter in London's left-wing weekly Tribune, Angry Young Playwright John (The Entertainer) Osborne, 31. showered spleen over his fellow countrymen. Zeroing in on Britain's political leaders from a refuge in southern France. Osborne denounced them as ''murderers" for refusing to dismantle all British nuclear weapons forthwith: "My hatred for you," he wrote, "is almost the only satisfaction you have left me. My favorite fantasy is four minutes or so of noncommercial viewing as you fry in your democratically elected hot seats, preferably with your condoning constituents. I would willingly watch you...
People: Aug. 25, 1961
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