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...Glen Cove, N.Y. hospital where a car crash landed him with a broken neck (TIME, Feb. 10) came an encouraging bulletin on Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella. Still paralyzed from the waist down, Roy has improved in "muscle strength," and "he is now able to move his wrists and straighten out his arms. The sense of feeling ... is now down to the upper abdomen...
...loose ends stick out all over. . . It cannot be untangled by wrapping more yarn on the outside. . . It is a big, vast, intricate thing, and I don't think you can wind another committee or another czar or another group on the outside of a tangle and straighten out the tangle...
...into the TV set after dinner, or sometimes with his dinner, and fiddles with a few wires. Daddy and Mummy also play a game called "Cigar Hunt," which Mummy generally wins with the magic words. "All right . . . hand it over!" For Mummy's sake Benjy is anxious to straighten out poor Daddy. Speaking in the third person, as he sometimes does, Benjy promises that when he goes to school, "he's going to study hard, hard ... so he'll get two diplomas. Then he can give one to Daddy...
...closed-door, pre-banquet luncheon before 150 G.O.P. fund raisers from nine Midwestern states, Humphrey tried to straighten some of the hair he had frizzed during the budget flap last winter, when he remarked that continued big budgets would bring on a hair-curling depression. Said he: "I think you might just as well admit that there is a wave of criticism, a wave of disappointment, a wave of complaint that is going all over the country-here in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, in a lot of places. It is more prevalent with just the kind of people who are right...
...known as the Vacuum School of Criticism, reports that every Saturday afternoon in winter she cleans her Manhattan apartment to the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, only to run into serious dusting dilemmas. "If I were not saddled with the Metropolitan, I would clean in the following order: straighten up the room, dust Venetian blinds, clean window sills, brush lampshades and upholstered furniture, dust surfaces, mop floor, vacuum rugs . . . This order makes sense: it chases the dirt from above to below. But operas don't work this...