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...Davies, answered Paget. Acting for various church groups who own much property in the red-light areas, Rees-Davies had interviewed some 250 prostitutes, concluded that what drove the vast majority into their profession was sheer "laziness." One prostitute, he reported, drove up to his office in a Rolls-Bentley, asked his help in freeing her boy friend, who had been charged as a pimp. She said that she earned $17,000 a year and paid no income tax because "it has all been paid by those who give me presents...
...Defective human genes, lab-mixed with healthy genetic material, may some day be artificially inseminated to produce normal individuals, said Johns Hopkins Biologist Bentley Glass in a Michigan State University lecture. Children's sex may one day be pre-ordered by a lab device that electrically separates the two types of sperm. "The great advances already made," said Glass, "suggest other fascinating possibilities of producing and modifying human genetic material...
...this goes on in China. That fact doesn't seem very significant because Brecht seems to write with a dark Germanic humor and the English version which the Harvard Dramatic Club chose is by Eric Bentley, who never uses a foreign word when an American one will do. The colloquiality (?) of the piece is one of its charms...
Stefan Wolfe, a composer working for Brecht in Berlin, has written a musical score for the HDC production which premiers a new translation of the play by theater critic Eric Bentley...
...sexual confusion." Too much snobbery? "I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props ... I myself abhor Wine-and-Foodmanship. My own favorite food is scrambled eggs." Yet, though he has never been known to kick anyone in the groin, and fancies his own Ford Thunderbird over a Bentley, Author Fleming strikes his friends as "awfully like Bond really, appearance, clothes, Floris bath essence...