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...used in Summer of '42, he has recreated intact a childhood world that is separate from the wider-ranging life of surrounding adults. There is no hint of city life: the biggest crowds (barring a short scene at a country fair) are the score or so of people who attend the several funerals that come up before the film is done. Life is running free on the farm, drinking lemonade with the neighbor lady, performing magic tricks for the grown-ups, listening to the bizarre tales of an aged Russian grandmother. The Depression has no meaning when you're young...
Strange fruit from a man who once seemed destined to be a scholar of Hebrew literature. The son of a Winnipeg rabbi, Steinberg left home at 15 to attend high school in Chicago, then went to Israel, where he earned a B.A. in Hebrew letters from an institute for foreign students. Even then he had a happy-go-lucky attitude that put him at odds with his religiously zealous classmates. "I chased after girls," recalls Steinberg, still a bachelor. "I was just normal, but around those students I must have come off like a Nazi...
When Low started Recovery in 1937, it was exclusively for former hospital patients, and he ran it with imperious authoritarianism. Since his death it has been run by dedicated disciples. Adherents now number about 7,000, pay $7.50 a year in basic dues, but many nonmembers attend meetings, usually held in schools and other community buildings. Group leaders are not professionals-who seem remote and austere to many patients-but are themselves former mental patients...
Cromn is currently on his one-week annual vacation sailing of the coast of Maine. His two assistants also said they were unavailable to attend the Council meetings...
Liberal Councillor Henry F. Owens III, who voted with the four independent councillors for adjournment, said he would not attend any Council meetings where City Solicitor Philip J. Cronin was not present...