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...plays Mama Hirsch, a Westchester matron of the affluent diaspora displaced from The Bronx. Mama Hirsch is not content to throw her weight around; she shot-puts her entire family. Her daughter (Jill Kraft) lands on a psychoanalyst's couch: Should she marry a button-down stuffed shirt or donate free love to a beardless beatnik? Mama's husband (Howard Da Silva) lands on a putting green, a golf widower torn between selling his house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama...
...simplified, 50-cent test* to be given to any suspected cases and all relatives of known victims. It takes only one drop of blood. Anybody with a normal ceruloplasmin level can forget about Wilson's disease. But anybody with an abnormally low level, the Bronx doctors say, should have a further test for copper in the liver. If this registers high, the patient is assumed to have the chemical defect and is promptly put on drugs and diet in the hope of preventing the development of full-blown disease...
...University of Sussex will get 21-year-old Eileen Janes, a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Brandeis University. Scholar Janes is getting her M.A. at the University of Wisconsin, wants to earn her doctorate in 19th century English history at Sussex, because it has the finest professor in her field. Pomona Senior David Drabkin, who has already spent a semester in India studying economic development, is also headed for Sussex to study international relations...
...Pounds of Trouble. "Muddah, when I grow wup I'm gung to be like Gary Grant." It isn't easy to be like Gary Grant, especially for a kid from The Bronx, but Bernie Schwartz meant business. At 22 he changed his name to Tony Curtis and copped a one-line bit in a B movie. "Woo, woo!" was all he said, but the second they saw him a million bobby-soxers said the same. Tony was short (5 ft. 8 in.), dark and pretty. His hair was a mass of kiss curls, his lips were...
TERRY D. ARANOFF The Bronx...