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...invented a leather sleeve device to serve as the missing arm for one-armed golfers, a crutch with a retractable spring so that one-legged men could go bowling, a special hook with which a one-armed man could swing a softball bat, a series of gadgets for fishermen. Then he took a leave of absence from the Press, spent three years touring every major veterans' hospital in the U.S., teaching 50,000 veterans how to use his contraptions...
...left, a fat-buttocked nude is grasped by a hand that protrudes from no body; below lies a soft, naked torso and legs, which Grosz says represents the memory of his mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World War I (nervous breakdown following brain fever); one of his fellow patients was a German soldier who had lost his leg, and carried...
...must the Anglican publications lean so heavily upon the crutch of criticism of Rome - especially if they do not have even an elemental understanding of Roman Catholic beliefs such as the place Mary occupies in Catholic dogma? . . . From some of their more recent railings, it seems their publications have degenerated into a hodgepodge of misguided attacks on certain facets of Catholic belief...
AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (89 pp.)-Gian-Carlo Menotti-McGraw-Hill ($2.75). A fine book version of the story Composer Menotti wrote for his TV Christmas opera last year (TIME, Dec. 31), in which a crippled shepherd boy adds his crutch to the gifts of the Three Wise...
...revue, however, has no alternate crutch in the writing of the sketches. Aimed at unimaginative targets, Charles Sherman's satire has a toothless bite. The dialogue in his picture of an inane cocktail party sounds like something Noel Coward might have written in prep school, while a second skit relies on that hoary staple of a dozen revues--the parody of famous playwrights' styles. Even the spectacle of Miss Davis as a hillbilly crone and a lethargic slattern in gym shoes can't offset a script which comes up with a little horror like Flying Saucers, featuring a trio...