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...daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering and Oysterperch Railway." But these rachitic sinews manfully bore the baggage of war. When the railroads were nationalized by the Socialists in 1948, the equipment was overaged, the labor force (at the unions' insistence) oversized. The government could never firmly decide whether to subsidize hundreds of half-idle porters and uneconomic Far Twitterings or to streamline the railways...
...affair takes place in one of those stuffy Victorian drawing rooms which playwrights thinks is characteristic of Long Island society, and Emanuel Gerald's sets are garish enough to bore even the most undiscriminating theatergoer by the time he sees them for two hours. But then they are characteristic of the play itself. Put them all together, or take them one by one: in any case, all you have is a series of two-line jokes on a subject which, by now, has been cowed into submission...
...river's edge, let their speculation run free. When Alice's poilu husband Gaston came back from the war a hero, the cheers that greeted him were mingled with many a knowing snicker, snickers directed both at him and at the baby boy his wife bore...
Manhattan's Podiatrist Marvin D. Steinberg. The instrument, shaped like a safety-razor handle with a sharp bore at the tip, cuts out the offending portion of toenail in 30 seconds...
Felicia Delgado Gomez, by Caesarean section. Although precocious, Felicia was not the youngest child-mother in the medical records: 15 years ago a Peruvian girl, believed to be no older than five, bore a 6-lb. boy. Before she left the hospital hale and hearty at week's end, Felicia posed in bed with her baby and prized doll. ¶ A plan to make color films of patients under psychoanalysis was broached by Dr. David Shakow of the National Institute of Mental Health. Purpose: to show the films to groups of other analysts, enabling them to study each other...