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Beside such rude behavioral correlations, rarefied debate about whether suicide is justified or not, as well as neo-Stoical huffing about the inalienable right of alienated man to do himself in, seems frivolous. As these books show, suicidology at first seems an almost abstract subject full of piquant and possibly significant details. Dentists, we learn, lead all professions in killing themselves-followed closely by psychiatrists. Women try suicide three times as often as men but fail much more often. April and May, not the dead of winter, are the crudest months; Hungary, not Sweden, has the world's highest...
...only when my epitaph is readied," he once mused, "they will say: Here is Walter Winchell-with his ear to the ground-as usual." Nobody, alas, was quite so piquant when Mrs. Winchell's little boy Walter, as he liked to style himself, died last week...
...movie that opens with this scene, is rated GP (parental guidance advised), presumably because it contains no nudity and little cussing. Such things, according to the Motion Picture Association of America, traumatize young minds. The murder of a mother apparently does not. The rating is only one of many piquant curiosities about Going Home. Another is how it ever got made. Except for the above scene, the script by Lawrence B. Marcus is the sort of thing that might have shown up years ago on Philco TV Playhouse as "strong adult drama." Indeed, the director-producer of Going Home, Herbert...
...Piquant Item. The Newsday team -sometimes called "Greene's Berets" -has up to now confined itself to local targets on Long Island, but last week it considerably enlarged its scope by taking on, though in a polite and peripheral way, the most distinguished target in the country: the President of the U.S. The team's disclosures about an unusually profitable sale of some Nixon-held stocks is but a small part of an encyclopedic-indeed, numbing -70,000-word, six-part report that deals exhaustively with the Florida real estate business. The principal characters in the series: Florida...
...piquant expression of the work ethic in action. Richard Nixon might consider the labors of a Milwaukee group called Sweat Associates. Some 40 unemployed Milwaukeeans banded together last month on the principle that, as one of them said, "there is work to be done and people to do it." On its first project, the associates turned up unbidden at a South Side lot that had become a community dumping ground. They cleared off the garbage and erected a children's playground there, then sent the city a bill for $670.50 for their labors...