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...copyright reproductions of Brillo boxes for $1,000, lines his studio with aluminum wrap, paints his hair silver, and devotes eight hours of "underground movies" to such hitherto unexplored subjects as the depths of man's sleep or the height of the Empire State Building. Edie Sedgwick is his constant companion, an electric elf whose flashing chocolate-colored eyes and skittish psyche make her a perfect star for his slow-moving movies...
Then came Edie. The great-niece of the late Atlantic Monthly editor Ellery Sedgwick, the great-granddaughter of the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton's founder), Edie was definitely born a lady. But it was not a role she enjoyed. She quit school after one year at St. Timothy's and refused to have a coming-out party, divided most of her time between junkets to Europe and sculpture lessons in Cambridge, Mass. After settling in New York last summer, she drifted aimlessly about, looking for modeling jobs by day and dancing at discotheques by night, invariably dressed...
Robert Minturn Sedgwick, 2nd '55, a special student, died on Tuesday at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City, of injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident...
...undergraduate, he lived in Eliot House. His brother, Jonathan de Forest Sedgwick, is a junior in the College. The funeral will be in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...days when doctors had little or nothing else to offer their patients, it was natural enough for them to prescribe bed rest. Today, says California's Dr. Sedgwick Mead, prolonged rest is in a class with bleeding and purging. It has long since been proved that there is no scientific justification for the "vogue of rest." but too many of his colleagues, says Dr. Mead, go on prescribing it, not only in cases where it does no good, but often when it does actual harm...