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Ever since Freudian patter became the common currency of the cocktail hour, the idea has been spreading that people who have accidents are "accident-prone." But for a massive group of accident victims-the 8,000 U.S. pedestrians killed each year by motor vehicles-there is no clear medical evidence one way or the other. Last week an American College of Surgeons meeting in Boston learned the results of an intensive and ingenious study that enlisted experts from the New York State Department of Health and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Cornell University Medical College, the office of New York...
...Stevenson and his party, some for mixed motives: both Son John Fell Stevenson and ex-Senator William Benton lost their wallets to pickpockets. At a bullfight, where Stevenson was cheered the loudest, Matadors Luis Miguel Dominguín and Pepe Caceres dedicated their bulls to him. At a cocktail party Stevenson charmed the guests by bringing along Dominguín. Gushed one regal lady: ''Mr. Stevenson, when you get into the White House, will you please invite...
...Parkinson's Law (TIME, Oct. 28, 1957) holds that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion," ergo, an organization's personnel mushrooms faster than mushrooms. In his earlier book, Author Parkinson also bantered entertainingly on how to tell somebodies from nobodies at cocktail parties (the somebodies come late and shun walls), how institutions achieve perfection of layout just before collapsing, and how the deliberations of any finance committee "will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved." The Law and the Profits, well illustrated by Cartoonist Robert C. Osborn, is twice as long...
Someone has remarked that the most dangerous man in America today is the man who goes to cocktail parties to listen. In the early forties Helen Howe was listening, and her novel about Cambridge people and their talk, "We Happy Few," has made the community uneasy ever since. Miss Howe is a small, bright-featured woman whose father is Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, and whose home-town is Boston. She has written enough novels to qualify as the "Jane Austen" of New England...
...meal. That, in fact, was just what had happened. Except for the cooking water and seasoning, almost every bite of the appetizing meal she placed before her guests had been washed, cut, peeled, shelled, precooked, mixed and apportioned by "factory maids" long before it reached her hands. After cocktails and hors d'oeuvres (frozen), Mrs. Holstein began her meal with shrimp (frozen) in cocktail sauce (prepared), a green salad (fresh) with Swiss dressing (from a bottle...