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Ivan Bunin, poet, novelist and aristocrat, is one of the last of these echoes of the old Russia. He is 80, almost bedridden with asthma, and he lives out his last years of exile in a Paris flat, half-forgotten by the world since he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1933. What he has to say now, in Memories and Portraits, does more than evoke the people and places of his own past. Sometimes gently, sometimes tartly, it conveys the tragedy of a whole generation of intellectuals of good will...
...upper floors flames raced to the old women's quarters before firemen could head them off. The Mother Superior, Sister Rita Gervais, dashed in with a fire extinguisher; she never came back. The blind, bedridden and crippled were trapped. All hope of rescue went when the roof crashed and the old building blazed like a well-flued furnace...
...give us striking evidence of how doctors and journalists can work together to do their respective jobs. One night last November Mrs. Jones lay in bed reading TIME. Beyond the night table in the other bed was her husband, a 53-year-old Episcopal priest who had been bedridden for three years as the result of five coronary attacks. "We were just waiting for the next attack to kill my husband," she remembers. In the Medicine section she saw a story about an operation by which New York's Dr. Samuel A. Thompson had been able to increase...
...literate, but unsponsored, example of the relaxed "Chicago school" of TV. This year, cut to 15 minutes and tricked out with a sudsy dramatic line, Hawkins Falls seems more intent on impressing its. sponsor (Lever Bros.) than its critics. But even with the added heart tugs of a bedridden invalid, a runaway boy and a self-sacrificing wife, the show keeps enough of its original flavor to be better-than-average daytime TV fare...
Howard E. Hugo, instructor in General Education, will take the place of Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, in Humanities H lectures today and Thursday. Wilder has been bedridden in Stillman Infirmary for two weeks with an injury to his sacroiliac...