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This death was a drama whose details are still being hotly debated. In its sordidness it recalled, among other sad and disorderly exits, the death of Edgar Allan Poe.* But it proves something about Dylan Thomas, and about the typical kibitzers of greatness who flocked to him. The hangers-on are still fighting, figuratively, over his body. Some stick to the story that Thomas died of a cerebral injury caused by a fall at a drinking party. Another group hints that Thomas was fatally dosed with morphine by a doctor whom a rival clique had summoned to treat the poet...
This incident took place in 1949 at rock-strewn Vicos Hacienda, 10,000 feet up in the Andes northeast of Lima. But since then Vicos has changed. Last week Dr. Allan Holmberg, the scientist who wanted to save the child's life, reported on the change in a lecture at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, in Stanford, Calif...
...Democratic split became plainer when attention focused on Texas' tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Governor Allan Shivers. Less than three weeks earlier, Stephen Mitchell, Butler's predecessor as Democratic national chairman, had said that Shivers and certain other Democrats who supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1952-specifically South Carolina's James F. Byrnes and Louisiana's Robert F. Ken-non-should be kept out of the 1956 Democratic National Convention. In Washington last week, Shivers announced that he wanted to have words with National Chairman Butler, and muttered: "I want to know whether he's going...
Although this represented Paul Butler's first sharp departure from the line of Former Chairman Mitchell, he was still out of tune with Allan Shivers. When Shivers was asked whether he could support Stevenson in 1956, the Texan showed that he was anything but penitent. Stevenson, he said, would have to make "considerable changes." What changes? "Oh," said Shivers, "he'd probably have to change his name...
...Chairman Stephen Mitchell. His committee's proposal, Mitchell pointed out, left plenty of muscle to throw out of the 1956 national convention any Democrat who bolted and supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. If former Governor James F. Byrnes of South Carolina. Governor Robert F. Kennon of Louisiana, Governor Allan Shivers and former National Committeeman Wright Morrow of Texas seek seats as delegates, warned Mitchell, "they will be rejected...