Word: karla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite all the planned activity, the biggest attraction of the Borscht Belt is still the opportunity it provides for generating togetherness. At Grossinger's, Hostess Karla Grossinger serves as matchmaker-psychologist, introduces couples with practiced skill. The weekly hotel newspaper (delivered to more than 100.-ooo alumni) proudly reports all marriages that can be traced back to a romance at the G. At the Concord, just inside the mammoth dining room, a wooden pegboard records who is sitting where-pink pegs for women, blue for men. Lighter and darker shades indicate relative ages. Thus the maitre d'hotel...
...have fitted the situation better. The family of a clown strive first to make him admit to a love of hashed potatoes, and then to get married. This apparently signifies acceding to the ordinary world. Mr. Langella was excellent as Jack and Dorothy Gurvitz was outstanding as his sister. Karla Feinzig as the girl he is to marry was beautiful, but not terribly good in the crucial seduction scene. Again Tom Davis' sets were very good...
...Hospital. The good-humored approach, correctly geared to keep young polio patients cheerful, has had direct effect on the role of College and Radcliffe Volunteers. The PBH group of 30 accounts for slightly more than half the volunteer force that works under the hospital's Recreational Services Department. Karla Perce '57 one of Radcliffe's 37 Volunteers, finds the surgical wards have "a relaxed but nor chaotic atmosphere. We're always kidding around with the children and no one ever gets annoyed at us." Miss Perce's duties, typical of all the Children's Hospital volunteers, involve playing cards...
...Karla Perce of Radcliffe sees the hospital program as a manifestation of the college student's "decline from the Ivory Tower", and the de-emphasis of the seclusion of college life. "Experience in the hospitals gives you a frame of reference. When you see the problems which some people must contend with, it makes the prospect of an hour exam pretty petty...