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Down by the Riverside. Appalled by the growing decay, Newburgh's city council last fall went looking for a businesslike city manager. The council's choice was brash, balding Joseph McDowell Mitchell, 39, who had already served in administrative jobs in Culver City, Calif., and Marple Township, Pa. Mitchell ordered a survey of the welfare program, discovered that Newburgh's relief expenditures -$983,000 out of an overall city budget of $3,134,000 for 1961-came to more than the city spent on police and fire protection. He seemed shocked to learn that most...
...film doomed soon to dry and crumble into powder? Not if loving care can prevent it. In an aluminum can sealed in an air-conditioned, constant temperature vault at MGM's Culver City studios lies one of the most valuable objects of its weight in existence: the master negative of G.W.T.W. Beside it rests the picture's master print, "the platinum yardstick" by which the colors of all new prints are measured. As long as these masters are in reasonably good shape, G.W.T.W. is safe. Prints can be "enhanced," if worst comes to worst, and even...
...note that your book reviewer (Story for Icarus) and the Culver illustrator like their Minotaur with a human body and a bull-like head. How come? Ovid, of course, is evasive, but old Bulfinch (ponder the possibilities in that name!) tells it just the other way around. A minor existential choice, perhaps, but not, indeed, without its psychological implications...
...Culver welcomed the Republican candidate's proposals as an answer to the growing need for higher medical faculty salaries. The shortage of medical teachers, he said, could be alleviated by more unrestricted grants from the government and private groups...
...Culver insisted, however, that a program of Federal assistance would not diminish the need for the drive...