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Died. Frederick George Novy, M.D., 92, famed bacteriologist and faculty member of the University of Michigan from 1886 to 1935, dean of the medical school 1930-35, who studied in Europe under Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, in 1888 helped establish the first U.S. bacteriological laboratory; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...although it is rubbish. Off Limits mounts hundreds of unrelated, postage-stamp vignettes of the occupation years 1945 to 1951 side by side. Amid the meandering plots and subplots, readers will meet the following unattractive Americans: an intelligence major who forms a sado-masochistic liaison with the Ile Koch-like widow of a concentration-camp commandant, a Jewish captain who allows a German family to stay on in the home he has improperly requisitioned in order to seduce the daughter of the house, a well-meaning colonel who quits rather than carry out the conflicting orders of Washington politicos...
There are lots of poems, fat ones and skinny. I like Kenneth Koch's best. His are fat. He writes like a great bull, not afraid of going anywhere or being anything. The nicest poem is The Young Park. "Hands picked/On her blossoms./The young park was sad." In the park things become animals, and animals people, and the young park becomes a person, Young Park. Even the automobile club gets mislocated in the zoo. All because the poet becomes the park, and believes in it. "At night, when everything is yellow and green,/You too can come alive/If...
...Clinic-one of 33 similar clinics in the U.S., most founded in recent years to spot and, when possible, to combat the tragic cases of mental retardation in infants (there are about 1,000,000 such cases in the U.S.). The Los Angeles clinic's director, Dr. Richard Koch. 34, and consultant. Dr. Arthur H. Parmelee Sr.. 73, checked Mary Ann's physical history, tested her for motor ability, environmental adaptiveness and awareness. Dr. Parmelee told the parents that Mary Ann will be able to learn to dress and feed herself and play with other children...
...advice to parents of Mongoloid children: even though the child will eventually be committed to an institution, keep him in the home as long as possible. In early years, Mongoloids are happy, playful and easily manageable. It is often the parents who need treatment. As a "parent counselor," Dr. Koch has to deal with marital tensions. "The problem is that these women don't want to have children again, and it often causes sexual incompatibility. I urge them to have children. It takes their guilt feelings away...