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...MERGE CUNNINGHAM, 46, Dropped-Out from the Graham company 21 years ago because of her "psychological drift." He didn't want a mother figure, he wanted Dada instead. Ever since, he has been one jump beyond the avantgarde. He was among the first American choreographers to use musique concrète, the first to leave the structure of a ballet to chance. He rehearses in silence so that his dancers will not be influenced by the music. Themes? "Supply your own," he says. Yet for all his seeming whimsy, Cunningham is a dancer and choreographer with serious intentions...
...Patricia Cunningham, wife of a New Jersey engineer, was joyously pregnant for the first time in eight years of marriage. Late last year, early in her sixth month, she began to have labor contractions. Since a baby delivered that prematurely would have no chance of survival, Obstetrician Arthur Perell took immediate steps to stop the contractions. But not by surgery to close the womb, a technique sometimes used. Instead, Dr. Perell got Mrs. Cunningham a bit tipsy, and kept her that way until the contractions stopped...
...case of Mrs. Cunningham, the respite was as long as any recorded. After the first alcohol treatment worked, Dr. Perell sent her home from Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., with the prescription to "feel free to do a little elbow bending." Mrs. Cunningham felt like two bourbon-and-ginger-ale highballs a day. "This," she says, "was the only thing I could keep down." But it did not raise the alcohol level in her blood high enough to keep the oxytocin down. For that, a level close to the intoxication mark is needed. Her contractions began again. So back...
...fortnight ago, Patricia Cunningham gave birth to a full-term, 5-lb. 5-oz. girl. If she had had an infusion shortly before delivery, the baby might have been a bit high at birth. But she had had none; Beth Ann was sober and altogether normal...
Originally constructed as part of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the Art Institute has reflected the city's tastes and interests for seven decades, and fell on hard times only in the 1950s, when lackluster leadership led to a period of inaction and interoffice intrigue. Under Cunningham, probably the only museum director who ever played center on his college football team, the museum has snapped back, with attendance up a remarkable 559,000 last year, to a total of 2,516,000, and membership at an alltime high of 38,769. Cunningham means to capitalize on the revival of interest...