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...dealing with "nuclear holocaust," however, Miss Mead said that "the identification of war and personal violence is invalid, and the distinction between good and bad wars is irrelevant. We are dealing with the issue of whether or not there will be any human beings," she said...
...took more sorrow to make Eleanor become Eleanor. In 1921 Franklin was stricken with paralytic polio. She nursed her husband, fought off his mother's inclination to keep him an invalid at the family home in Hyde Park. She also encouraged Franklin to seek the governorship of New York, which he won in 1928. She was less than enthusiastic about his pushing on to the presidency, but once he decided to run, she worked hard...
...Roosevelt needed the detailed attention of a specialist in diagnosis. But she was as contemptuous of fuss and feathers in regard to her health as in other matters; she brushed aside suggestions that she subject herself to major medical procedures. Mrs. Roosevelt was unfitted by temperament to be an invalid. She liked to say: "I'm too busy to be sick...
Applications for Yale game tickets must be turned into the box outside the Department of Athletics; 60 Boylston St., by 5 p.m. today. All undergraduate coupons are totally invalid after that hour. Application envelopes are available from the ticket office at the department...
More than an Invalid. The decision to go national underscores Playbill's ambition to become something more than just a theater program with ads. For most of its 78 years, that was all it was. Its creator, a New York printer named Frank V. Strauss, started in 1884 with a one-page flyer, pretentiously titled The New York Dramatic Chronicle, that gave theatergoers little more than the cast, inappropriate ads (CHEW WHITE'S YUCATAN GUM) and, by way of editorial fare, bad jokes ("The hen is not a cheerful fowl: it broods a great deal...