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...those "naughty postcards." From Brighton and Blackpool, millions of the garishly colored cards are mailed each year with their fat ladies and skinny drunks, timid vicars and saucy tarts, bashful honeymooners and beery, bulb-nosed husbands, all with risqué captions. Since 1904, their creator, shy, retiring Donald McGill, turned out no fewer than 12,500 cards, and sold 200 million copies. In London, the "King of the Postcards" died at 87, and Britain last week mourned the passing of an institution...
...born Robert E. Liefmann, 42, graduated from Montreal's McGill University Faculty of Medicine, but has been involved in an eight-year hassle with licensing authorities and has never been licensed to practice. This has not kept him from treating patients in hospital research projects. He was suspended from Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital for implanting the pituitary glands of calves in the thighs of six arthritis patients. He did a research stint in Stockholm, experimenting with combinations of hormones as treatment for arthritis. Back in Canada, he mixed his Liefcort formula...
...nice impartiality, Columbia's President Grayson Kirk voted for the Swanberg book in his capacity as an advisory board member, then voted against it as a trustee. "I don't see why the trustees should be a rubber stamp," said Board Member-and Atlanta Constitution Publisher-Ralph McGill...
Colin Adair, the Canadian intercollegiate champ as of last weekend, arrived too late to be seeded, but is expected to be a strong contender as well. He whipped Paul Sullivan (Harvard) 3-0 at number one earlier in the season in the Harvard-McGill match...
Forty-six students from Eastern colleges, and one from McGill University in Montreal, arrived in Cambridge last night to begin competition in the last squash action of the season: the intercollegiate championships. Fifteen colleges are represented in the tournament, which opens at 9:30 a.m. today in Hemenway...