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...brother were Mary and Charles Lamb. Charles was a 21-year-old clerk in the offices of the East India Company-a fragile, stammering youth with a large head on a thin little body, pipestem legs, and a strained look about his eyes. As a result of a nervous breakdown he himself had spent six weeks "very agreeably in a mad house at Hoxton." But confronted with the hard-and-fast alternatives of taking care of Mary or committing her to an institution, Charles never hesitated. Until death parted them, brother and sister lived together like an old devoted married...
...Stevenson, and in the Social Sciences 14 were for the President and 35 for Stevenson. The Democrat also led in the Natural Sciences, by a margin of 27 to 14. Twenty-seven ballots for Eisenhower and 52 for Stevenson were merely marked "Arts and Sciences," with no breakdown by areas...
...command, at 27, the tank training center at Camp Colt, Pa. But soon after Christmas 1920 their first child, Doud Dwight ("Icky"), died of scarlet fever when he was only three. Ike stumbled out of the hospital room blind with grief, and Mamie, close to a breakdown, lost something of her vitality which she did not recover for years...
...such potential dimensions. Having gotten Around the World, he is now sitting on top of it. His plans? Says the man who is pushing 50 as if he intends to knock it over: "As soon as the excitement dies down, I'm going to have a nervous breakdown. I worked for it, I owe it to myself and nobody is going to deprive...
Died. Msgr. Lorenzo Perosi, 83, longtime (since 1898) director of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Choir, and foremost Italian composer of sacred music, who wrote 14 oratorios (most famous: The Resurrection) and 30 Masses, destroyed much of his work in despair during a mental breakdown (1922); in Vatican City...