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...schoolteacher with a twelve-year-old boy in tow appeared last week at the University of Vienna's Psychiatric Clinic and told its chief. Dr. Hans Hoff: "If you don't take this child. I'm going to quit my job. He has threatened suicide, and I refuse to take the responsibility.'' Dr. Hoff agreed to treat the youngster and his problems, but he had charge of only one of many cases that have recently alarmed Vienna's teachers, public and press. In four months, 16 children aged 9 to 16 have tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Children & Suicide | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

Especially difficult is the "short-short" story or play. Shopping and Waiting, by James Schuyler, the first of four plays given by the Poets' Theatre, is a five-minute piece that is scarcely more than an esoteric joke. A supernatural toy dealer mystifies tow earthly patrons with his clairvoyance; the scene closes when a predicted disaster comes true. The dull dialogue of Kenneth Donoghue, the dealer, and Jack Rogers, a customer in his second childhood, is enlivened only by the facile-clowning of Sonia Grant...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Four Plays on a Plain Stage | 3/26/1954 | See Source »

Because of the great inducement to take advantage of a Junior year away, some precautions are necessary to permit the departure of only capable, mature students. An applicant should have a Group Three or better standing for his first tow years, and meet the proposal's requirement of a D language course. Although the program includes an orientation period, no student should leave without the full confidence of his department. With these safeguards the Faculty can pass the Junior year abroad plan and insure a profitable addition to the curricula...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juniors Abroad | 3/26/1954 | See Source »

Cambridge police are out to find and tow away automobiles belonging to habitual parking offenders at the College and Radcliffe, Acting Chief Patrick F. McCarthy announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Threaten to Tow Away Parking Violators' Automobiles | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

...authorizing police to tow away "guilty" automobiles applies only to out-of-state cars because summons can be sent to owners of Massachusetts' cars at their homes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Threaten to Tow Away Parking Violators' Automobiles | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

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