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Mute Jake suffers little from cruelty, actually: boys chase him, loafers of no great intelligence use him as the butt for broad humorous gibes. But when his older brother runs out on the family and his widowed mother dies, the small community becomes their brother's keeper. They fail him, most of them, and after their effort to shuck him off onto the insane asylum collapses, the deeper tragedy follows. Author Williams is talking about the failure of human responsibility not through vindictiveness but through indifference. She does it with sureness, for she knows her villagers and she knows...
...Keeper of the "record," and Pusey's Assistant for Civic Affairs, Charles P. Whitlock, listed several examples of what Pusey termed "the University's help and guidance in city development...
...year ago, appalled by the number of fraudulent Turner water colors that were cropping up in London, the museum's keeper of prints and drawings, Edward Croft-Murray, decided to warn the public by putting on a special show of fake Turners along with some originals. The idea quickly spread to other departments, and even to collectors and connoisseurs on the outside. Art Historian Sir Kenneth Clark contributed a 17th century unicorn horn; Sir Alister Hardy lent his mummified mermaid. From the museum's storerooms came the famed fabricated Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953), an Etruscan sarcophagus...
...last week for Connecticut's G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination in 1962. Speaking to Young Republicans, he took the trouble carefully to disassociate himself from Brother Joe's "enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket" and declared: "I am not a prophet of gloom and doom like my brother, Joseph-whose keeper...
...Sheldon Berman's first memories is of being held by his mother (now dead) in a tight clutch of terror while police raided their home. His father Nathan was a tavern owner, and he appears, in one of Berman's best routines, as a militantly bourgeois delicatessen keeper who rough-talkingly tenders a chunk of his life savings so that his son can go to acting school; the sketch ends with the father's soft-spoken request to the newborn star not to change his name. Berman actually went to Chicago's Goodman Theater acting school...