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...institution's centenary. The play is being performed before large Washington audiences this week, was seen by TV viewers last week in a 17-minute cut-down version. Cry of Humanity was a monument to Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-87), the New England schoolteacher who crusaded from Newfoundland to Louisiana for the "moral management" of the insane, persuaded Congress to open St. Elizabeths...
Conceived by Dance Therapist Marian Chace, Cry of Humanity was quickly taken over by the patients. They picked the life of Dorothea Dix for its theme; it was they who insisted .on showing scenes from her early years-because they wanted to show the root causes of their heroine's own neurosis. The curtain went up on Dorothea as a nine-year-old drudge doing chores for her invalid mother (who was 20 years older than her minister-husband). Before a shabby house in Hampden. Me., neighbor children chant tauntingly: "Dorothea can't play." Not until...
...amount of a year ago. But in the past few weeks, FHA has started to dampen the boom. In Dallas last week, FHA announced that it would make no further firm commitments on purely speculative housing, i.e., with no buyer signed up. In 17 other areas, e.g., Fort Dix, N.J., Portsmouth, Ohio, Paducah, Ky., primarily where defense-stimulated expansion has mushroomed building too rapidly, FHA has also rationed the number of loans it will insure, sometimes cutting builders' applications by as much as 90%. Private bankers are also tightening up, pressing for shorter terms on private loans. Last week...
...concert bank will tour army camps in Massachusetts and New Jersey during the vacation. They will play at Fort Devens Monday night and will them move to Fort Dix and Camp Kilmer...
...Wheel. So far as Rocky was concerned, only one thing was worse than being in jail: being in the Army. Drafted in 1942, just as he was beginning a career in professional boxing, he rebelled against military discipline, flattened his captain with a fast right, went AWOL from Fort Dix, N.J. and wound up in the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. A connoisseur of jails by then, Rocky found the Army brand the worst. "All I can say is, stay out of any prison run by a bunch of amateurs...