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When 44-year-old John Powell died at Cincinnati's Drake Memorial Hospital last | March, doctors were not surprised. Powell had suffered severe head injuries in a motorcycle accident and had been comatose for eight months. But an autopsy revealed that Powell had actually died from a lethal dose of cyanide received shortly before his death. After a brief investigation, Donald Harvey, a 35- year-old orderly at Drake, confessed to the killing...
...first Powell's murder appeared to be an isolated incident. But soon afterward, several workers at Drake called local station WCPO-TV to say there had been an unusually high number of unexplained deaths on the wards where Harvey had worked. The station's investigative report on the subject in June prompted a grand jury probe. The bodies of ten people were exhumed by the Hamilton County coroner, and traces of arsenic were discovered in several. Last week WCPO reported that Harvey admitted to police he killed 34 people: 23 patients at Drake, five at a local Veterans Administration hospital...
When he was 23 and breaking into the entertainment world, Alan Jay Lerner kept to "a schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights." He wrote daily radio sketches for Celeste Holm and Alfred Drake, crafted material for Victor Borge and Hildegarde and contributed audio pageants to Cavalcade of America. Then one lunchtime at Manhattan's Lambs Club, where he hung around hoping to be noticed, a fortyish theater composer impulsively came up to his table. "You write good lyrics," said Frederick Loewe, who had heard Lerner's contributions to the club...
Although the Signet is coed, many members today agree that the fine line between this literary society and final clubs is no longer absolute. While the exclusive organization began as an alternative to the clubs, about 20 percent of today's membership have also joined final clubs, says Max Drake '87, a Signet member who says he also belongs to a final club...
...been in both situations, and the atmospheres are different, the kinds of things you discuss are different," says Drake, adding that the cocktail hour given by the Signet for nominated students is completely different than the fall or spring punching seasons of final clubs...