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British Columbia's case of the unwelcome wife took a turn for the better last week. When Dorothy Hewitt, a pretty ex-model, flew home to Jamaica in September, leaving her schoolteacher bridegroom at his job in Vancouver Island's exclusive Shawnigan Lake School for boys (TIME, Oct. 4), it seemed doubtful that she would ever return to Canada. According to Dorothy, who is one-eighth Negro, Shawnigan Lake's Headmaster G. P. Kaye had asked her to leave rather than embarrass the school by remaining as a faculty wife. John Hewitt joined his wife in Jamaica...
Pretty, olive-skinned Dorothy Holtz, 21, was a happy bride-to-be when she arrived at Vancouver Island late in August. From her home in Jamaica, she brought a tiered wedding cake and a long bridal gown. Her English fiance, John Michael Hewitt, 30, was a biology master at the exclusive Shawnigan Lake School for boys near Victoria. Hewitt, who formerly taught in Jamaica, had splurged his savings to furnish a cottage on the school grounds and buy a car. Dorothy had plans for a formal wedding, a big reception, and a happy life in the campus community...
...Dorothy has not decided whether she will go back. ("She doesn't think I played the man," admits Hewitt.) But she is heartened by the sympathy shown by Canadians. "I wish," she said, "that I had some way of thanking them properly for all this kindness...
...Having finally been forced to conclude his career as a bogus college professor, Marvin Hewitt, the degreeless wonder who got seven academic posts under four different names (TIME, March 15), received an offer from the city where his father was killed while on duty as a police sergeant. Wrote Philadelphia's Managing Director Robert K. Sawyer: "If your masquerade is really over, it might be possible to find a place for you and your family here...
Says Dr. Cohen in summary: "He remains disoriented, with poor judgment, flattened [emotional responses] and a profound amnesia. The outlook is poor, but not completely without hope that he may some day be able to ... manage outside the hospital." Cases like Hewitt's will become more common, Dr. Cohen points out (Brentwood already has two more), as the practice spreads of opening the chest to massage a stalled heart...