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...brought a protest from some of the people eligible to collect it. The Senior Citizens' Club of Medicine Hat adopted a resolution declaring that the money could better go to widows, the handicapped and pensioners. Art Smith, Conservative member of the provincial legislature, declared: "So long as the infirm suffer financially, so long as there are over-burdened municipalities, so long as there is need for roads and education, there is no justification for the dividends." The antiadministration Calgary Herald indignantly advised its readers to "treat the bonus with contempt," and the Edmonton Journal denounced the plan...
...London's Morning Chronicle reported a terrible tale. Naming no names, the paper described how a certain young lady of Holborn had "seized a case knife laying on the table'' and "with loud shrieks, pierced to the heart" her "helpless infirm mother." The jury's verdict: "lunacy." The Chronicle added a careful note: the report "that she has an insane brother also in confinement is without foundation...
...advised against widening streets, instead visualized a beltway from which cars would pull into multistory parking garages pronged toward the heart of the site; no central city building would be more distant from a parking space than 2½ minutes' walking time. Small shuttle cars would carry the infirm and lazy...
...Mexico City airline pilot, Cuevas discovered his genre at ten, when he found a dead rabbit, gutted it and sketched its entrails. He tried oils at 13 but soon abandoned them for ink and watercolors, roamed the streets in dungarees, sketching the poor and infirm. An elder brother, studying to be a psychiatrist, got him permission to visit insane asylums for his studies...
...could not have rescued Marco Millions. As producer, and president of the club, Peter Shoup must take the greatest blame for the evening--although his was probably not the sole decision in selecting this play. One hopes that the cause of the Theatre Committee will not suffer from the infirm choice of a vehicle. The HDC has come too far to be undone by a single ill-advised production of a reliable playwright. Nevertheless, those who want to support the current example of Harvard Theatre face a long evening...