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...Uncle Adrian? The Young May Moon is the story of a 15-year-old boy's unhappiness when his mother dies and his father temporarily deserts him. For young Philip Rice, the death of his mother is a matter of simple grief. For his father, Alec Rice, the death has another aspect: he feels inner relief at being free of a "dictator who rarely raised her voice and never threw a saucepan." Alec chucks his truck driving, drifts off on a holiday after shipping Philip to his Uncle Adrian, a baker in Wales...
While the father is escaping from his troubles in a country pub, the son stores up anxieties. Why has his father deserted him? Why is it Uncle Adrian, and not his father, who breaks the shocking news that the buried woman was really his stepmother and that Philip's own mother was an unfaithful first wife...
...executives, more interested in what makes radio and TV sell than in how they operate, Goldmark has the quality of a man from Mars. Nobody at CBS except Adrian Murphy, whose intramural title is "Vice-President in charge of Peter," is ever quite sure what Peter is up to. Goldmark is left alone because they all know he's "some kind of a genius." For Board Chairman Paley, it's enough that "you always know what Peter tells you is gospel...
...that medical groups, which for some time now have been viewing operations in color TV, would be the likeliest customers. CBS and Rand hope also to sell the system for relaying corporate meetings to stockholders, and for classroom use. As for the eventual mass consumer market, CBS Vice President Adrian Murphy quipped: "You have to smoke a little opium before you really can see its potential...
Charles M. McEwen, Jr., Arlington High; Kurt Pollak, Boston English High; Albert Reichert, Roxbury Memorial School; Donald F. Schneiderman, Roxbury Memorial School; Mayer Rubenstein, Chelsea High School; Leo F. McNamara, Jr., Clinton High School; Edward E. Morse, Gardner High School; Robert A. Lemire, Lowell High School; Shahan A. Adrian, Malden High School; Leon Friedman, Malden High School; Allan R. Robinson, Marblehead High; Richard C. Lundin, Medford High School; David M. Whalen, Medford High School; Arthur I. Brown, Jr., Newton High School; Robert G. Funke, North Attleboro High; William F. Pickard, Jr., Quincy High School; Wilmon B. Chipman, Reading High School...