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Last year government and private agencies gave the Harvard Medical Center over $5,000,000 for research on various projects. Everyone seemed to have a pocketbook to match his problem, and to the casual observer Harvard should have had little to do but cash the check and proceed to investigate. Actually, Medical and Dental School authorities are worried whether their budgets can stand much more of this philanthropy...
...Distributors Corp. of America, producers of the film version of I Am a Camera, John Van Druten's 1951 stage play about a frankly promiscuous girl, was holding its pocketbook and its breath, waiting for a seal of approval from Hollywood's Production Code Administration. Filmed in England, the picture stars Julie Harris, who is called upon to utter such lines as "I might not be exactly what some people consider a virgin . . . but I've been chaste-chased by every man," and "What shall we do first-have a drink or go to bed?" Said...
Everybody knew Frankie-in a way. James D. Norris, millionaire president of the International Boxing Club-which is the heart, pocketbook and sordid soul of American prize fighting-had known him for 20 years. Used to dunk doughnuts with him, as a matter of fact. What did Frankie do for a living? Well, Jim Norris wouldn't know about that. They were just sort of social friends...
...tell. There is a serious farm crisis in East Germany. Meat, wheat, sugar and edible oils are now critically short, and in some localities there has been panic buying on the "free markets" (where prices are about six times the ration price). Some East Germans fear that the "pocketbook blockade" of West Berlin (TIME, April 11) is only the prelude to "some new deviltry." The East German government announced that it had arrested 521 U.S., British and West German "spies...
...Patients are "alarmed by the confusion and the cost of a system in which the doctor competes with the hospital for the patient's pocketbook," Dr. Basil C. MacLean, New York City Commissioner of Hospitals, told the New England Hospital Assembly in Boston. Furthermore, said MacLean, some hospitals seem "to be designed on the pattern of a clip-joint nightclub," charging as much as 60? for a couple of aspirin tablets that they buy at 60? per 1,000. "If the voluntary hospital system is to continue," warned MacLean, "shock therapy is needed to cure it of its schizophrenia...