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Born with a silver-plated spoon in his mouth, Amory (Harvard '39) has spent most of his postgraduate years doggedly following society's international trail. Somewhere between Boston and Bar Harbor he lost the scent, concluded gloomily that society was dead. "I realized," said Amory, "that the celebrity world overcame the society world-nobody looks at Mrs. Vanderbilt's pearls any more; they just want to see what Marlene Dietrich is wearing...
...evening study date will usually end up in "The Spoon," the place-to-go for Sarah Lawrence. Complete with good food, dim lighting, and a juke box, it is an ideal place for coffee and conversation. Similar on a smaller scale to Cronin's, the Spoon is not strictly a college hangout; residents from the area come also to consume bottles of beer from the counter or liquor from...
...entire concept of guidance is sure to grate on any Harvard student, who traditionally prizes his independence, and who scoffs at other Ivy Leaguers and more distant colleagues who are still spoon-fed by a bevy of counselors, advisors, and deans. At Harvard, freedom is an almost sacred word, with individualism only slightly less exalted. But freedom implies responsibility, which is not so often thought of. During the college years, new freedoms appear at a bewildering rate, and inevitably some cannot be immediately coped with. There is freedom of time and of action in great quantities. The student usually makes...
While Surgeon Simonetta massaged the heart, Jacobs ripped the cord from an electric fan in the operating room, ordered a silver-plated spoon from a room where the nurses took their coffee breaks. "I bared the wires," he said, "and wrapped one around the spoon and placed it against the heart. I wrapped the other around a retractor and placed it against the shoulder. A third fellow plugged the wire in.'' After four jolts of current, the fluttering heart was calm; 15 minutes after its own last beat, normal pumping was resumed...
...making a normal recovery, the citizens of Spring Valley (pop. 5,000) found a way to show Dr. Jacobs their gratitude. They chipped in to help buy the hospital a $350 defibrillator so that other patients' lives would not have to depend on an electric cord, a coffee spoon...