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Unable to make good in the new world as a tailor, Morris worked as a janitor for three scrofulous tenements in Manhattan's teeming Jewish ghetto. His stipend: $33 a month and a free two-bedroom flat. He also served as a ward heeler, working under an Irish saloonkeeper who gave him money before every election to distribute (at $2 a head) to tenement dwellers who promised fealty to the Democratic ticket...
...Avila; others claim insights that have changed their lives. In John Mersey's latest novel, Too Far to Walk, the Devil feeds Faustus LSD ("The closest equivalent to infinity in sheer living"). There have also been stories of "bad trips"-writhing nightmares that end in the nearest psychiatric ward. Occasionally LSD is a one-way trip. Since the recent flood of sensational publicity about LSD has let up somewhat, it is possible to assess the phenomenon more calmly. LSD is certainly not the means of instant, universal bliss that its most extreme and most ludicrous proponents make...
...President got into motion by visiting Bethesda Naval Hospital to call on several ailing legislators-including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, undergoing treatment for a urinary-tract infection. While there, he dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...
...Gushy. Both Osgood and Frank agreed that Communist China's aggressive big mouth may be a result of its fear of American power-sheer "bluster and growl" to ward off a powerful competitor. Frank even suggested therapy. "In approaching a deeply suspicious person," he cautioned, "it does not pay to be too friendly. Since he is convinced that you mean him no good, he is prone to misinterpret an overly friendly manner as an effort to put something over on him. So a firm, reserved, but not unfriendly manner makes more headway than effusiveness." In many ways, Frank...
...orphaned ward, Patrick, and to millions of Americans, Auntie Mame has been a durable feast as heroine of book, play and movie. Maine is now the Broadway season's last show and best musical-scant praise this year. The assault of amplified sound is so steady that if Van Gogh could hear it he would cut off his other ear. Yet the score is not unappealing. The title song and Act I finale is Jerry Herman's lucky bid to match his Hello, Dolly! number; the opening-night audience swamped it in applause the moment it began...