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...bleak but spacious Manhattan apartment that Rice had occupied with Charley Jones after the two moved up from Houston, the mourners found everything apparently in order. But some were a bit bewildered by the presence of a baldheaded, 35-year-old lawyer named Albert T. Patrick. Patrick claimed he had known Rice only a few months. Yet the old man, he insisted, had thought so much of him that he had put him in charge of his whole estate. When Jones and Patrick were asked about Mr. Rice's last days, they both told the same story. His death...
...Industrial production is 83% above prewar: city folk have new movie houses and coffee bars; 1,000,000 Italians are whizzing about on flashy little motor scooters. But there still remain, in a population of 47 million, 2,000,000 unemployed and another 2,000,000 underemployed. In the bleak south, says an Italian government report, almost one-third of the population lives in "extreme poverty." The report cites these statistics...
...play concerns a young Roman Catholic girl who has become the mistress of a middle-aged married psychologist. She is deeply in love with him when, after her mother's death, she goes to live in a sort of religious Bleak House with two devout great-aunts and a paralyzed priest of a great-uncle. Her relatives exist in cramped fright, having sealed off-in their retreat from reality-room after room in which anyone has died. A wily, bigoted aunt first keeps the girl from running away with her lover. Then she forces the girl to confront...
...even reprints cannot save an otherwise bleak issue. Occasional signs of promise do not take the place of humor. D. J. Golden, in describing a phonograph record in the opening article, writes: "Certainly there was little that could provoke even a grin . . ." The comment is all too applicable to the Lampoon...
Naturally I welcome the appointment of a resident pre-medical adviser in Eliot House, and would be glad to see other Houses take similar steps. However I believe that the situation regarding advising for pre-medical students is not quite so bleak as your editorial would suggest. John T. Edsall Chairman, Board of Tutors in Biochemical Sciences