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Lonely Path. There was no obvious reason for him to drop out. The failure of his recent movies-Tony Rome and Dirty Dingus Magee-did not seem to rattle him. The voice was going but not gone. Intimates insisted that illness was not a factor. He did quit his latest film in November because of a painful constriction in his hand, but surgery supposedly has corrected that. He is back on the golf course and still moves with the old deliberate cock-of-the-walk swagger. With his hair transplant and added poundage, he looks healthier-but worse -than...
...years ago, Dr. William Henry was ready to succumb to his annual urge and quit his general practice in rural Twisp, Wash. (pop. 750). As the only full-time physician in a 500-sq.-mi. area, Henry was so overworked that he seldom read a medical journal and never had a vacation. But last year the doctor got expert help from Carl Chillquist, a former Army medic. As Henry's paraprofessional aide, Chillquist enabled the doctor to see many more patients, skim those journals, and even get away for skiing and fishing. In recent years, Twisp itself has never...
Squeezed by money problems, U.S. campuses from Yale to Vanderbilt are trimming scholarships for needy students, who now must borrow more, work more or quit college. The University of Pennsylvania is an agonized example. In the past 13 years, scholarships have grown faster than any single item in its budget-from $2 million to $14 million. They have helped Penn to increase its mix of black and poor students. But Penn is running a $1.9 million budget deficit. As a result, it is eliminating 57 of the 867 scholarships it now offers freshmen...
Johnson's athletic exploits have more than vindicated his thinking. As a freshman, he went out for the football team, felt he wasn't good enough to play, then quit. After sitting out the sophomore campaign, he decided to give the sport another chance. He worked himself into a starting defensive back position in his junior year, and in his final season he gained the reputation of one of the finest safeties in the Ivy League...
After The Americans came out in 1959, Frank essentially quit taking photographs to make movies. That is, he continued taking some pictures into the mid-60s, but never again was the still camera to be his priority. "There should always be a struggle to come up with something new," said Frank. "You cannot repeat the old formulas. Perhaps I might take up still photography again, but only if I had something new to say. Eugene Smith, after all he went through, now takes pictures from his loft in New York City. They're really terrible pictures, you know. A shadow...