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...Stevens: Life as Poetry is a poor biography, but it is a fine book on the poet. In fact, with Kermode's Wallace Stevens and J. Hillis Miller's essay in Boets of Reality, it's one of the best books on Stevens around, far and away superior to Helen Vendler's On Exetnded Wings. But there still remains the task of writing the story of the man whose poetic genius is equalled in this century only by Yeals and Eliot. There still remains...
...Died. Helen Rogers Reid, 87, president, then chairman of the board (1947-55) of the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune; in Manhattan. Wife of the Trib's Editor-President Ogden Reid, she made her name on the business side as a crack ad saleswoman who had, as one colleague put it, "the persistence of gravity." She went to work in 1918, was responsible for doubling linage by 1923, and after that headed the ad department until 1947, when she assumed command at the death of her husband. In politics, she continued the Trib's tradition of moderate...
...love affair with Helen (Jennifer Salt). a totally innocent and uncomprehending rich girl. alienates him even further. Williams edits quickly, without transition from one incongruous sequence to another, from factory life to a dinner party with bankers back to labor organizing emphasizing A.'s fragmented, confused, isolated world...
...flying feline fur blurred a few facts. Far from being harassed by hordes of U.S. newswomen, the Princess was regularly accompanied by a pool of only six reporters, two of them British. True, the U.S. pool members included U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas and A.P.'s Frances Lewine, among the fiercest rivals in the entire Washington press corps. But both, by their normal standards, were considerably subdued in the royal presence. Miss Thomas asked Anne only one question: how she liked the view at the Washington Monument. When the Princess frostily replied, "I do not give interviews," Miss Thomas...
Accidental burns among small children are common enough that some hospitals staff special wards to treat them. But are the burns really accidental? Helen L. Martin, a medical researcher at the Burns Unit of London's Hospital for Sick Children, says no. After studying 50 cases over a period of seven months, Mrs. Martin has concluded that most burns are actually the outcome of emotional problems in which the children are innocent pawns...