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...ecumenist John R. Mott to become secretary of the Y.M.C.A. World's Alliance in Geneva. The Swiss city has been his headquarters ever since, and having since been ordained in the Swiss Reformed Church, he preaches every now and then. He married fragile-looking Netherlander Henriette Philippine Jacoba Boddaert, with whom he has three children, all now grown and scattered throughout Europe. "The problem of an international family is language," grins Wim. "When we get together, if the conversation begins in French someone will switch it to Dutch or German, someone else to English...
...Ward, by Jacoba van Velde. The Dutch author writes without tricks or sentimentality about an ordinary old woman who accepts death with dignity...
...Ward, by Jacoba van Velde. The Dutch author writes without tricks or sentimentality about an ordinary old woman who accepts death with dignity...
...WARD, by Jacoba van Velde (120 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $3), a major literary success in Europe, is an uncommonly honest novel about the ordinary death of an ordinary old woman. In it, Dutch Author Jacoba van Velde manages to skirt the standard literary paths to death-cynicism, hysteria, indifference and bravado. Her setting is an old-women's nursing home, and in it the place to avoid is the big ward. To be moved there from the little ward, which beds only six, is a sure sign that the doctors have sighted the end; to be switched from...
...Jacoba ("Joke") Haanschoten, 5, a child of a Putten factory worker, had enlarged and infected adenoids that threatened to block a Eustachian tube. Such blockage could, in turn, cause infection of the middle ear. A fortnight ago Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) went to Utrecht's City and Academic Hospital, 25 miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx...
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