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...mother encouraged Diana in her ambition to become an actress, enrolling her in Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. She sharpened her skill on an enviable series of supporting parts, won awards for her performance in Raisin in the Sun as a zany coed running a high fever in her frontal lobes and raves from the critics for her performance as a whore in last season's Tiger Tiger Burning Bright. She labored in television's well-trampled vineyard, in roles ranging from one on Outer Limits ("I played a beige monster") to a brilliant characterization...
Grandma had the best name for the disease: "threeday measles."* The usual symptoms are a mild sore throat, a light rash, and a fever of not more than 102°. In children, some swelling of the lymph glands is common but is usually not severe. Only rarely does the virus of three-day measles lead to pneumonia or brain inflammation. But it may occasionally be fatal. Last week three children's deaths associated with the current epidemic had been reported from Chicago, and a Connecticut teen-ager had died of encephalitis. Less predictable and less understood is a complication...
Realizing that their united front was disintegrating, and faced with spreading scarlet fever and other outbreaks among Belgian children, the strike leaders agreed to negotiate. But after 14 hours of wrangling, the talks broke down. The strikers tried an ultimatum; they even threatened to stop emergency hospital service. That was it. The government angrily announced that it would start drafting physicians. Once in uniform, the doctors would work when and where they were told to. Said Premier Theo Lefevre: "We will take all measures necessary to prevent the situation from worsening still more...
...like wanting to join the priesthood. "I suppose it was partly because my father had always been greatly interested in automobiles," he says, "and because I was influenced by family friends who were Ford dealers." Always a top student, he was felled by a seven-month bout with rheumatic fever as he entered high school, began to study even harder when he was forced to give up sports. To let off some of his competitive energy, he turned to the debating team, later perfected that talent with Dale Carnegie, is today an articulate public speaker...
...Bramhall gives every sentence weightiness, makes every speech momentous. It is with energy, not respect, that he controls the conspirators. His antics make Cassius seem calm by comparison. And in a second act where everyone--Bramhall, David Rittenhouse (Antony), Edwin Holstein (Octavius), and Thomas Weisbuch (Cassius)--is playing at fever pitch, where a ghost puts in an appearance, and where the prodigious battle scene takes up fully ten minutes, the play degenerates into a second-rate melodrama. The giggles heard during what should have been the most exciting moments of the second act ought to warn the cast to slow...