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...plot has the simplicity of a short short story. A Southern mother (Maureen Stapleton) long since deserted by her husband, and subsisting on delusions of genteel grandeur, wants to secure a suitable suitor for her slightly crippled daughter (Piper Laurie) who has withdrawn into the reverie world of her collection of tiny glass animals. The restive son of the house (George Grizzard) brings home a "gentleman caller" (Pat Hingle) who arouses the girl's interest and then, guiltlessly, inadvertently, breaks her pet unicorn and -by revealing that he is already engaged-her heart...
...there may be no Joint Center." While the Ford money is only about one-fourth of the budget, it is the Center's only unrestricted money. Without it, Wilson feels, "we would be faced with the necessity of hustling contracts, and we would begin to dance to the piper's tune...
...those who dropped out after, say, On the Road, The Subterraneans or The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is remembered as a likable literary wild man, a frightener of librarians, a pie-eyed piper for young men with no socks. Perhaps because socklessness no longer seems the major menace (the young are activists now, not beatniks), Kerouac, at 43, appears mild and gentle. The effectiveness of Kerouac's prose is as erratic as before, but the woozy mid-sentence plunges from eloquence to incompetence are no longer embarrassing. It is understood-theses are written on the subject-that Kerouac refuses...
Also Martin Lubin '42, assistant professor of Pharmacology; Paul C. Martin '52, professor of Physics; Richard E. Piper, professor of History; Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin; John G. Terrey, professor of Botany; and James D. Watson, professor of Biology...
...town of Hamelin, Germany-which according to legend hired the Pied Piper in 1284-last week appointed another official rat catcher: Britain's Rentokil Ltd. It signed a $15,400 contract to rid the town of rats and mice. Applying the techniques that have boosted its annual sales to more than $11 million, Rentokil will use rodenticides, not flutes. Hamelin's children will distribute leaflets asking for aid in locating rodents, but the company has no further plans for the youngsters-unless perhaps the town lathers again rat on the deal...