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Probably because they were not called upon to represent pure virtue or pure evil, the rest of the dancers were good. Karen Wilk wore the mask of hark and skulked about with the mystery necessary for her ultimate metamorphosis. Also part of the palace menage, the guards did what was required, particularly Eleanor Sutherland, who did more. As good were the tavern people...
...type of operation, developed by Yale's Dr. William B. Scoville. Called "selective cortical undercutting," it involves choosing one of the three main areas of the frontal lobes and making a local cut where the grey matter joins the major white fibers. Weighing results in 150 cases, Dr. Wilk considers them as good as those from complete lobotomies. And personality damage was vastly reduced, to the point where he thinks the selective operation might be used for serious neuroses...
...Price Paid. None of the reporting doctors was more concerned with the side effects of psychosurgery than Dr. Edward K. Wilk of Taunton, Mass. "Personality blunting," he says, "has been the inevitable price paid for a complete lobotomy operation [and] reveals itself in the higher realms of creative imagination, foresight, ambition and social sensitivity." Some long-confined schizophrenics are so tar gone that this damage might hardly show. But the less severe the case, the greater the risk. And if psychosurgery is to be used in other psychoses, and even in neuroses, says Dr. Wilk, personality damage cannot be tolerated...
Wendell Willkie had come back to Rushville, Ind. for the last time. Here he had courted Edith Wilk and married her; and when he made his money he bought farms nearby. In the past he had come back to this small town (pop. 5,709) from the great cities which were his arena, like a boxer coming back to his corner between rounds. Last week Rushville was quieter than usual; schools were closed; flags hung at half-mast and big, crepe-bordered photographs of Wendell Willkie hung in store windows. All morning people went into the grey stone Wyatt Memorial...
Died. Cora Smith Wilk, 81, mother of Mrs. Wendell Willkie; of heart disease; in Rushville, Ind. She was the daughter of a Civil War captain, a student at Indiana's De Pauw University...