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...hour days, and there are only 1½ doctors for each thousand patients. Istina gets electric shock treatment, insulin is pumped into her veins, and she is shunted to foul-smelling dayrooms with the other "hopeless" ones-Esme, who crouches in a corner with her nightgown over her head; Bertha, who sings endlessly; and Mary-Margaret, who ends each day with a cheery broadcast to Egypt, signing off with "Good night, the World. Good night, everyone, everywhere." When all else fails, the patients scream and curse, fling themselves against "wooden doors that have been kicked and hammered upon...
...Bertha Donaldson's Diary
...Outhouse. Jerry Donaldson, 47, a onetime Detroit bus driver, and his hardy wife Bertha, built a comfortable (28 ft. by 32 ft.) cabin, fought off hordes of shrews,* are working on a greenhouse, have a hi-fi and TV set ready for use as soon as they can get a generator, and plan soon to build an outhouse. "When we first arrived here," says Bertha Donaldson, "there was just a patch of sunlight along the road. I asked myself, 'Do I really want to do this?' It took a while to adjust...
...dungaree-clad London housewife, Frink had her first exhibition while still in art school. Last week her tabletop bronzes were on view at Manhattan's Bertha Schaefer Gallery. At first glance, many looked like mud attempting to fly; they were that energetic and that saggy. The combination said something blue about man's estate, the approved tone of most contemporary sculpture. But Frink's ostensible purpose has nothing to do with moral messages or with ideals of any kind, not even plastic ones. "Somebody makes a metal armature for me," she explains, "and I start covering...
...when you know all the answers." "No, old is when you don't even bother to ask the question"), and an understandably bored performance by an old Hollywood pro, Director Jean Negulesco. The result is just about the dullest retelling of the old cautionary tale since Bertha, the Sewing-Machine Girl...