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DEATH REVEALED. Fredric Wertham, 86, author and psychiatrist who crusaded against violence in comic books, movies and television; on Nov. 18; in Kempton, Pa. Wertham, a Munich-born authority on criminal psychology, argued that violence is a product of cultural influences. In his books Seduction of the Innocent (1954) and A Sign for Cain (1966), he contended that violence in the mass media was in part responsible for juvenile delinquency. He called television "a school for violence," and commenting on movies, he wrote, "If I should meet an unruly youngster in a dark alley. I prefer...
Uskali and Sneath have one thing in common that the four other leads glaringly lack: a bursar's card. Jayne S. West (Mabel) and William R. Monnen (Fredric) are voice students at the Boston Conservatory of Music, and Dennis Crowley (Major-General) and Hope Devenish (Ruth) are grown-up singers with several years of professional experience. All four have--as their parts call for--first-rate voices, but their advanced years make their performances troublesome...
...seem to be in better financial shape because of her work as business manager," Fredric Haber '79, former WHRB news and program director, said last night. "Our budget this term has been in the black for the first time in a long time...
...Miserables, with Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and Fredric March, at 8 p.m., and Stanley Kramer's Ship of Foolswith Vivien Leigh and Lee Marvin, at 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March...
...FREDRIC J. LOWE New York City...