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...Saratoga Handicap (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). The $50,000 horse race...
...From Handicap to Holiness. Bishop Marling feels that the saints provide an especially rich field for the psychiatrist. For Catholic writers often show a misguided tendency to suppress neurotic elements in the saints' biographies. For though "the struggle for perfection . . .tends to a balanced character, to genuine psychological unity," there is no need to deny that many saints were neurotic. In Bishop Marling's view, "Many a saint has borne a neurosis to a holy death, and enjoys the honors of the altar precisely because, though handicapped by ignorance of its nature and source, he struggled valiantly against...
...serious" candidate, Johnson set pencils to scribbling furiously. If, said Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic delegates should decide "they would like me to be their standardbearer, I will do my duty." Johnson, the victim of a heart attack last summer, made it clear he thought his health was no handicap. Said he: "I have been putting in 15-and 16-hour days every day, including Saturday, during the last weeks of Congress." Did he consider Adlai Stevenson or Averell Harriman the best candidate? Replied Johnson: "The best candidate at the moment is Lyndon Johnson...
Married. Emanuel ("Manny") Shinwell, 71, British Socialist Minister of Defense (1950-51), self-educated ("It's a great handicap") veteran Laborite; and Dinah Meyer, 54, London bank secretary and staunch admirer of Tory Sir Winston Churchill; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
...this kind of dramatic handicap bothers Shaw the way an out-of-tune piano would have hurt Beethoven. What the playwright loses in motion and physical life he more than makes up for in intellectual content. Indeed, making Joan proud, self-righteous, and a military crusader adds intellectual spice to such questions as "Was she really guilty?" and "Would we burn her today?" It also leads up to the nationalism, monarchism, and Protestantism that Joan purportedly represents, and to some fine razzle-dazzle Shavian dialogue on these topics. In many ways the scenes in which these questions are most thoroughly...