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...cosmopolitan cant of chess players, it is legend that masters of the game are all meshuga-Yiddish for a little batty. But when they talk of Brooklyn's Bobby Fischer, the newly crowned...
...Charles Starkweather still seemed to grasp only simple things. Guns, guitars and hot-rods were good; snakes, schoolbooks and recurrent headaches were bad; the right trim to his long copper hair and the proper cant to his cigarette made him look like James Dean. Beyond these, Chuck Starkweather accepted just two constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect...
...divided between-schools that seek the cause and cure of the disease either in the emotions or in physical-chemical conditions. When 2,000 of the world's leading psychiatrists assembled in Zurich last week for the Second International Congress for Psychiatry, TIME'S Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant was there, to listen to their latest findings on the urgent problem of mental illness. For his report, see MEDICINE, Meeting on the Mind, The Big Sleep and Schizophrenics International...
...lost none of its mastery. His years of playing Shakespeare in London have stood him in good stead, and he projects with perfect clarity even when his back is to the audience. Conroy is here only this week, so try to get to the show by Saturday. If you cant, go anyway next week; Conroy's role will be taken by Chris Gampel, who is a fine, reliable actor...
LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER of Newburyport, Mass. Realizing, as no stuffy conformist would, that the quickest way to become a U.S. peer is to confer the title on oneself, Dexter sensibly did just that. "It is the voise of the peopel," he explained in his firm, aristocratic prose, "and I cant Help it and ... it dont hurt A Cat ..." Born in 1747, America's first peer started life "Dressin of skins for briches & glovs," would probably never have grown too big for his briches had he not spent every penny of his savings buying up U.S. "Continentals" and state securities...