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Side Effects. Salinger, badly stung by charges that he had been evasive about the true nature of the back injury, set up a press conference for Dr. Travell. To some 100 White House reporters, Janet Travell said that there was no connection between the virus and the back troubles. She took a dim view of the Potomac cruise -admitted she would have liked to have advised against it. But the infection, she added, had one good side effect: by forcing the President to bed, it gave the back an additional chance to heal. There was not much time for healing...
...Stung by Drama Critic Walter Kerr's panning of the play based on his novel, A Call on Kuprin (Kerr called it "a great deal of scenery in three acts'"), Welsh-born Novelist and Member of Parliament Maurice Edelman dashed off a disastrously timed letter to the New York Herald Tribune. "It is a pity," huffed Laborite Edelman, "that Mr. Kerr should have been so busy sawing up the scenery that he should have neglected the play-which, after all, is the thing." Unhappily, it wasn't. In the very issue that carried Edelman's letter...
...Republican-leaning Free Press pasted the President with scorn: "President Kennedy by his words and actions conveys the idea that he sits with his finger resting against the panic button and doesn't quite know how to draw it away." And both here and abroad, the cartoonists stung him with their sharpest barbs (see cuts...
...Culpa. Toynbee was stung by the criticisms, perhaps even shaken. The proof lies in Toynbee's Reconsiderations, a massive overhauling of his previous positions, which is at the same time an astonishing admission of error. At the same time, The Intent of Toynbee's History provides a broad platform for nine of his keenest critics to have a fresh go at an already well-clobbered classic. On the whole, the critical lash falls with less severity than formerly. It is true that Professor David M. Robinson, an expert on Toynbee's favorite "Hellenic" world, hardly tries...
...Stung by the charge that it favors "grade-getters" and penalizes creative students, the nation's biggest private dispenser of college scholarships last week revamped its selection system. To this year's 850 "wellrounded" winners, the National Merit Scholarship Corp. is adding 85 "lopsided" types in four new categories. Sample winners in each category...