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...Lonely Island. A more serious complaint is that the tried and true New Yorker formulas of the 1920s and '30s are out of place in the 1960s. The shapeless, plotless New Yorker short-story form tends more and more to pedestrian tales of the Irish moors and "When-I-was-a-child-in-Afghanistan-my-grandmother-used-to-tell-me" reminiscences. The New Yorker's cartoons still run faithfully to prisoners or to strandees on lonely islands. "I get awfully sick of prison pictures," admits Art Director James Geraghty, "but they keep coming in, and sometimes they...
...Bolivia and Colombia. In the rarefied air of La Paz, the 11,900-ft. high capital of Bolivia, even the strongest auto passes on after a mere 15 years or so. And in Colombia most cars are likewise postwar models. Very few cars were imported in the 1920s and 1930s, because in those days Colombia had scarcely any paved roads...
Under such pressure-packed working conditions, a few pros moodily suspect their fellows of improving their lies after marking their balls on the greens. But there is little of that sort of thing, and little of the kind of gamesmanship practiced in the 1920s by the great Walter Hagen, who used to deflate a field of opponents by grandly inquiring, "Well, who's going to be second?" Among the last of the sly oldtimers is E. J. ("Dutch") Harrison, 50. With a younger player watching, Harrison will occasionally choose the wrong iron for a shot, choke upon the grip, curb...
...five-year-old Facility at Vacaville, a prison and mental hospital rolled into one, is virtually unique in the U.S.* Reason for its existence is the view, slowly spreading in the U.S. since the 1920s, that underlying most criminal conduct is emotional disturbance or outright mental illness. Carried to its logical extreme, this would mean abolishing prisons and putting all convicted criminals under psychiatric treatment. Society is far from ready for anything so visionary, and neither is organized psychiatry. As Kansas' famed Dr. Karl (Man Against Himself) Menninger puts it: "The sinners whose sins are inexplicable to laymen...
Died. Leon Berard, 84, member of the French Academy and Raymond Poincare's political protege, a classical scholar who horrified liberals when Minister of Public Instruction during the early 1920s by decreeing compulsory study of Greek and Latin, later (1940-43) was Vichy Ambassador to the Vatican; of influenza; in Paris...