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...begin living an uproarious travesty of a bad marriage, an astutely characterized study in incompatability. Matthau is a gruff, irresponsible slob, a sort of cigar-chomping depilated bear who shambles around in his ill-kept cave. A Friday night poker-playing crony judges Matthau by a Rorschach test of his refrigerator: "I saw milk standing in there that wasn't even in the bottle." By contrast, Carney is a fuss-budgety fanatic of cleaning and cooking. The kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder...
Charles Bennett 1G, and Hedy Miller, a 22-year-old Boston nurse, escaped unharmed yesterday from a Schroder's Cave accident in Dolegville, N.Y., in which James Mitchell, 23, of Winthrop, died...
Bennett and his companions were exploring the cave, located ten miles east of Ithaca, N.Y., when Mitchell became wedged in a vertical shaft under a stream of extremely cold water...
Bennett and Miss Miller, a former Wellesley student, worked for 45 minutes in temperatures of 10 to 20 below zero in an effort to free Mitchell. When all efforts failed, Bennett ran to a nearby farmhouse to summon aid. State and local rescue squads were soon at the cave site...
Bennett said he met Mitchell and Miss Miller earlier in the week in Boston. When they found they had a mutual interest in cave exploring, they decided to investigate Schroder's Cave which was discovered by an Ithaca high-school principal, 25 years ago. Much of it has never been explored...