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...unfortunate that in your July 16 discussion of regional ileitis and the President's outlook after his operation you did not mention the extremely important factor of age. My own recent book on regional enteritis (ileitis) cited, with approval, [Dr. Ward] Van Patter's figures from the Mayo Clinic to the effect that the rate of recurrence is less in patients 51 years of age and older...
...polite patter of applause died away, one of the Young Democrats sighed: "I'm glad it's over. Now he can go back to New York, and we can vote the way we were going to anyway...
Background becomes foreground when the two men share a recuperative leave on the French Riviera. Sam Loggins meets and falls in love with Monique, a raven-haired American beauty who has been brought up in France. With knowing French jokes and urbane, intellectual patter, Britt Harris parley-voodoos her under his spell and out of Sam's arms, and even proposes marriage. The whole affair takes a bizarre turn when Monique tells him that her father was a Negro. Britt rejects her in a drunken fury, Monique commits suicide, heartbroken Sam resolves to kill Britt. The last quarter...
...year history, but few could have been more riotous and spontaneous than the latest production. Despite an uncertain start earlier this year, when no one seemed sure whether or not there would be a show at all, the Pudding has put together a fresh and easy bit of patter which is never dull. For the good-natured audience last night, which displayed varying degrees of sobriety, the show...
...music of Joel Mandelbaum acts as more than a bright decoration of the plot since the composer has a really brilliant sense for musical parodies. In the course of the show he spoofs English madrigals and Gilbert and Sullivan patter songs, with a small comment on Bach chorals thrown in between. His talent, however, is no less evident in some warm long songs and the music for the large production numbers. For these ballet scenes, Liz Keen contributes some amazingly expert choreography...