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“Mailer’s Sentence: Good Behavior.” Article by Judy Michaelson. New York Post, 13 November, 5. Report on suspended sentence received by Mailer for stabbing his wife Adele with a penknife on 20 November 1960. Asked to comment on the court’s action, Mailer said, “I feel singularly inarticulate today.” See 1960 entries.