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...would be interested to know to what purpose you published the picture of Mr. Capote and Miss Monroe [April 4]. Perhaps you could try for a shot of Carson McCullers picking her teeth, or Tennessee Williams slipping on a banana peel. Is it newsworthy that Mr. Capote (who is a fine writer) is not a good dancer, or that he is shorter than Miss Monroe...
...Shameful Weakness. When the Irish took over their country in 1922, the nation had only one hospital that was less than 80 years old. Most hospitals were forbidding-looking piles, built as poorhouses and stand-by barracks in the prime ministry of Sir Robert Peel (who also helped make other medical history-see below). Now the Irish have built or completely rebuilt 82 hospitals, extended or overhauled 95 others, and have a total of 253 with 40,000 beds-near the top of the European scale. With the help of the new hospitals (plus new drugs), deaths from tuberculosis have...
Daniel M'Naghten. a Glasgow wood turner, thought that Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel was persecuting him. Then he confused Peel with his secretary, Edward Drummond. So M'Naghten shot and killed Drummond, Jan. 20, 1843. The jury's verdict: "not guilty"-by reason of insanity. The case so shook Britain that the judicial committee of the House of Lords suggested a hard and fast rule: to prove "insanity," a defendant must show-that he was either "laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality...
...expert on life in English prisons, having herself served an eight-month term in 1950 after being convicted of knowingly cashing forged checks (she pleaded, and still pleads, not guilty). She is 40, pretty, a cousin of Bertrand Russell, and a great-great-grandniece of Sir Robert Peel.* In prison Author Henry was called "the lidy," and told, "You talk lovely, but it don't get you far, do it, if you end up here?" But she turned her experience to good account with Women in Prison, a 1952 British bestseller, and now with Yield to the Night, which...
...Peel talked the Cinerama people into providing the film, Warner Bros, into lending projectors, the U.S. Air Force into ferrying 35 tons of equipment (four projectors, 72 speakers and a special 62,000-watt generator, since Cinerama alone could use all of Damascus' electricity). Last week, by special engraved invitation, the first audience-1,500 Syrian bigwigs and their families-rode the roller coaster, toured the U.S. by airplane, while the sound track chorused America, the Beautiful. The bigwigs (and 400 others who crashed the gates) seemed a little bewildered by it all. Undaunted, Peel decided Cinerama...