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...pivots on his Achilles' heel right into the officers' ranks. Played out to the anthem of God Save the Queen, the final scene is an ironic blend of parade-ground smartness and mocking bitterness. Pip has been broken, and the conscripts are to be shipped out as clerk fodder. Though Wesker probably intended something more hopeful, his play says in sum that you can't change the bloody upper classes-or the bloody lower classes either...
...school, Wallace could not afford to set up a law practice. He collected 1,000 coat hangers, sold them and his old clothes, lived on the meager proceeds until he got a job - driving a dump truck. He was still piloting the truck at 23, when he met a clerk in a dime store named Lurleen Burns, 16. They were married in May 1943 and now have four children...
...paradise. Telegrams poured in, including greetings from the President of the U.S. and Senator Karl Mundt. Newsmen, radio and TV crews were everywhere. St. Luke's Hospital swarmed with guards trying to control the unusual traffic. The quintuplets born to Mary Ann Fischer, 30, wife of a billing clerk in a wholesale grocery, were thriving, and the town was afire with pride...
Under a Pall. Though 90% of U.S. funerals are conducted with open coffins, the clergy are generally opposed. "If they had their way," says Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake of the United Presbyterian Church, "I think that most ministers would discourage the open casket during funeral services." Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike points out that while a dead body should be treated with respect, Christian doctrine teaches that it is no longer the person, who "in life to come receives a new, appropriate means of expression and relationship...
Breech Deliveries. In Aberdeen, the excitement at St. Luke's Hospital was almost as great as in Venezuela, when Mrs. Andrew Fischer delivered her four girls and a boy. The 30-year-old wife of a $76-a-week grocery shipping clerk, Mrs. Fischer had learned from an X ray a scant three days in advance that quints were on the way. Then when her time came, there were complications. Four of the five infants were breech deliveries; the other emerged head first. Also six-to eight-weeks premature, Mrs. Fischer's brood arrived in 90 minutes, weighed...