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Stephen H. Clark '65 of Lowell House and Cambridge, Mass., had an unexpected plunge into the Ammonoosue River in New Hampshire over the weekend. According to a story in yesterday's Boston Traveler, Clark was "dripping wet" when U.S. Forest Rangers found...
While sloppy, wet, and generally miserable weather continues to inundate Cambridge for the next few months, 'Cliffies will no longer have to arrive in class with their long hair damp and stringy. A general metamorphosis of the Radcliffe image may begin today when the Harvard Student Agencies starts its long-awaited bus service from the Radcliffe quad to Harvard Yard...
...putting a death wish into his life. T. S. Eliot once said that to think of Dryden dying was like thinking of an empire falling. To see Dylan Thomas dying on the stage is like watching a once raging fire being extinguished. Even the alcoholic cause of death, a "wet brain," chillingly suggests the dank dark extinction of the light of the mind...
...Deep. It was never simple for Pollock. Friends saw him, a cigarette smoldering on his lip, emerge from his studio limp as a wet dishrag. In 1953 Pollock took up brushes again, using his drip technique less and less frequently, to produce his last spurt of genius. In Portrait and a Dream, he showed the dichotomy between the monochrome meandering of his somnolent mind and the colorful mask of his own waking self. In Easter and the Totem, he paired a budding lily with a brown bullet totem that juts into the canvas from the left. He painted The Deep...
...Wet & Dark." Guiding P.G. & E. on its fast upward climb is its new president, Robert H. Gerdes, 59, a lean, shy lawyer whose voice sounds like Jimmy Stewart's. Gerdes joined P.G. & E. in 1929, worked mainly on legal and financial affairs before replacing Norman Sutherland as president last July (Sutherland died a few weeks later from cancer-TIME, Sept. 13). Though a native Californian, Gerdes has a utility man's notions about the profitability of bad weather. "We like it wet and dark," he says, "and the colder the better...