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...Peter the Hermit. His fervor is complemented by a first-rate independent mind. For all the obvious intensity with which he holds his beliefs, he has no all-embracing doctrine that makes his views on every question predictable, and that serves him as a fetter as well as a crutch. He is a confirmed socialist, but he has acknowledged that "Socialism is an experimental idea, not a dogma." (I quote from a published symposium entitled Declaration, which contains essays by Osborne and Kenneth Tynan which are worth reading for anybody who cares about contemporary theatre...
...loose from the abdomen, and the arm was laid across the drawn-up right foot. Again, the same commands. After plastic surgery under a light analgesic, the patient held this grotesque position for four weeks without complaint. He could even feed and bathe himself, walk with one crutch. The four weeks over, the graft had taken on the foot. Barron cut it loose, and Kelsey gave the order: "Unlock it." The patient did. His arm, despite its month's fixation, was fully flexible and painless: he could immediately work a cigarette lighter with the fingers of his left hand...
City police said that they are attempting to connect several cases of vandalism which occured between 11 p.m. Monday and 2 a.m. yesterday. Eyewitnesses reported that at approximately 11 p.m., a group of four left the Waldorf Cafeteria, one on crutches. The crutch was allegedly used to hammer some letters from a neon sign above the nearby Phillips Book Store...
Lost Battle. Last week a retired army officer named Marcel Doher was up for his fourth and last stand on the show. His brawny crutch, France's crack 400-meter relay team, waited on a track nearby. When Doher failed to identify the French priest (Abbe Henriot) who in 1815 became a close friend and horseback-riding crony of Napoleon, the scene shifted to Brawn. The team matched its former record of 45 seconds flat, giving Brain another go at Napoleon, but Doher missed again, and by this time the relay boys were tired. Twice the baton was dropped...
...client is ready for a recharge. Says Mikesell: "This is no zombie deal. I simply apply hypnosis-and I apply a form of enthusiasm. The enthusiasm is false, of course. It has to be, so as not to irritate any neurotic tendencies; but it does act as a crutch to carry them over any temporary slumps...