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...GRIEBE Twin Oaks Community Louisa...
Harry is "a winner," tall and wildly attractive to young women. "Entering the bottom edge of middle age," Jones writes, "he could relax a little and look back without anger." With his wife Louisa he gives regular Sunday suppers for the American colony (as does Jones), and his apartment becomes a kind of command post from which expatriates uneasily sally forth to see the carnage between the kids and De Gaulle's cops. On Jones' track record one might expect Harry to be hero-protagonist. Instead, the book produces Jonathan James Hartley III, a creaky, equivocal observer-narrator...
...Your story "The Malpractice Mess" [Nov. 2] wasn't your usual incisive approach but rather a superficial paste job. To begin with, you lifted a casethe one about Mrs. Louisa Alvarofrom my book The Negligent Doctor without realizing that although the story was true enough, her name was fictitious. But most important, the article recites all the clichés advanced by the American Medical Association without taking the trouble to check them...
...more frightening is the case of Louisa Alvaro, 26. A healthy mother of two, she began to hemorrhage during delivery of normal twins at a New York City hospital. Fifteen hours later she was dead. Doctors and hospital officials contended that her death was the result of a pre-existing liver condition and that everything had been done to save her. Her husband's attorney proved otherwise. Relying on expert testimony that tests were needed to determine the compatibility of Mrs. Alvaro's blood with blood administered during a transfusion, he was able to show that no tests...
...trespass sign for rabbits. The book was pounced on immediately by the upholders of the well-made novel and 19th century gentility. Most critics found it shapeless, and vulgar. "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses," said Louisa May Alcott, "he had best stop writing for them." Such scoldings came despite Mark Twain's prepublication agreement to eliminate references to blasphemy, bad odors, dead cats, and to change the phrase "in a sweat" to "worrying...