Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Griffin, Ga., she weighed 7 Ibs. and appeared perfectly normal, just like her two older sisters. Not until Marclan was five months old did her mother notice anything unusual. Then it was a lack of infant energy. "I had no worry about her falling or wriggling off a bed," Myrtis Walker says, "because she just stayed exactly where she was put." But soon her father, the Rev. Lorenda R. Walker, took a pastorate in Columbus. The trip to Ohio in a model A Ford was rough, and Marclan came down with pneumonia. At Columbus' Children's Hospital, doctors...
...five of them in speech, and plans to become a speech therapist. An average of six times a year she has to go to St. Mary's Hospital for a few days and four pints of blood. But by various devices, such as always doing her homework in bed, Marclan saves enough energy to play the piano, teach in her father's Baptist Sunday school, and carry on light campus activities. It has already taken more than 250 pints of blood to keep Marclan Walker up to this pitch of near-normal activity...
...uniforms) are more or less Edwardian, which is the fashionable period nowadays for doing sixteenth century drama. Her sets are attractively simple: the throne room is two chairs and a scarlet canopy against a black background, and the queen's bedroom is an ottoman and a great scarlet-canopied bed against the all-prevasive black. The scenes of hurried conspiracy after the Play Scene are done mostly on a bare, black stage swept with light across the front, as if to show that Hamlet had succeeded in rending the (over) elaborate facade of cheerful, orderly civilization that Claudius (with...
...title story opens with a "baby" lying in bed. He is 19 years old, and so fat that he has "groups of toes like uncooked sausages." Baby lives with his neurotic Mom; they rove from city to city, endlessly drowning their despondency in capsules of phenobarbital. The Sleep describes how Baby takes a brief waddle down Broadway, stumbles half-comatose into an automobile, weaves back home unscathed, and collapses into the miseries of natural sleep (he dreams that a fat gypsy squaw castrates him with a silver-bladed bread knife). Finally, he swallows the magic "pheeny" that returns...
...standing, with the aid of crutches. Soon, however, even this method became impossible. He then devised a system in which he worked kneeling upon a chair, supporting his weight by leaning upon his elbows. The incessant pain was so great that, in order to sleep, he had a special bed constructed. It is actually a small room built into the wall. The compartment is equipped with heating, ventilation and a roll-top cover which slides down, covering the niche. Warren slept upon the floor of this cubicle...