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...Barnaby was even more pleased by the excellent play at the bottom of the ladder. Dave Benjamin number six), Todd Wilkinson (seven), and Steve Simpson (nine) all won easily. Pete Brooks (eight) was the only Harvard player to lose. He broke a string in his racket in the second game, played with the racket anyway, and lost...
...Ladder. Though he is qualified as a surgeon, Dr. Appel insists that he is still a G.P. "A general practitioner," he says, "can be a very contented person because he becomes infused with a feeling of devotion and humanism; he and his patients get to know one another as persons; the rewards are soul-satisfying. I'm doing general practice and I love it." The house of delegates loved him for it too. They chose him, 131 to 94, over Dr. Donald E. Wood, an Indianapolis specialist in internal medicine...
...facts of medico-political life. The small-town doctor has fewer professional societies to occupy him than his big-city colleagues have; he devotes relatively more time to his county medical society. Dr. Appel, during most of his professional life, has been methodically working his way up the ladder of medical-society office holding, first at the county level, then the state, and for 19 years as a member (and in many cases, chairman) of innumerable A.M.A. councils and committees...
Anyone who thinks action isn't the soul of the drama --or who never quite understood what Aristotle meant when he said it is--should go to the Ex tonight or tomorrow and see Joel Schwartz's The Ladder and A Short History of Tightrope Walkers. Neither play is particularly good; one might easily claim that they're terrible. But they do demonstrate strikingly how much a dramatist can get away with, providing he keeps things happening...
...from his actors, who are uniformly good. It is worth going just to see Kay Bourne. But Schwartz himself must get some of the credit for recognizing how fascinating even the simplest gesture can be, if well executed. I think, in fact, he was so fascinated he staged The Ladder to play to slowly; but he had the right idea...