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...Korea to Manhattan's Chinatown. Among her 1,127 sisters are eleven physicians, 118 trained nurses, 330 teachers (with a heavy sprinkling of Ph.D.s) as well as social workers, pharmacists, stenographers, cooks. They teach school in an abandoned Navy Quonset hut on Palau, and in a fine, modern, brick building in Lima, Peru. On Africa's Gold Coast they treat patients who are brought to them through the jungle on homemade stretchers, and in San Francisco they give psychiatric advice to troubled Negroes and Chinese. The yearly illustrated bulletin that reports the departure of a new detail...
...Landon V. (for Victor) Butler's increasing wealth came in little ways. As the biggest commodity speculator in years, he was doing fine. First the gravel driveway at his small bungalow was blacktopped, then a curb was added-and then the whole thing was refinished in crushed brick. On the driveway, instead of a Buick there appeared a Cadillac, then a second one-with chauffeur to boot. Three years ago Commodity Speculator Butler bought himself a $300.000 house, added a swimming pool with cabanas; he bought a $150,000 yacht, used it as an office...
...scene of the play is the Mississippi Delta plantation of a lusty, crude, aging millionaire who does not know he is dying of cancer. He has two sons, one an utter mediocrity, scheming with his petty wife for the estate. Brick, the other son (Ben Gazzara) and father's favorite, has taken to drink and refuses himself to the wife he hates-the wife who intimated there was something unnatural between him and his now-dead closest friend. In an atmosphere of conjugal and family pretenses, accusations and resentments. Brick and his father, during a lacerating scene, blurt...
...brick dormitories and off-campus houses owned by the college will be wired during the summer, President Jordan explained," and any student who can pay her bills and installation fee will be able to have her own phone...
...lives in a big colonial brick house in Greenwich, Conn., with his pretty wife and their five children-Tom III, 11 , Jeannette, 9, Olive, 7, Lucinda, 5, Susan, 2-and tries to lead the happy, solid life of a normal, 9-to-5 commuter. He is as hard-muscled as a 25-year-old, loves to ski and sail. Whenever he can, he sails his 47-ft. racing yawl Palawan on Long Island Sound, has taken it on two Newport-to-Bermuda races...