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Although Corona had no criminal record in Sutter County, in 1956 he spent three months in De Witt State Hospital, a nearby mental institution, after being committed by his brother Natividad; two doctors tentatively diagnosed his illness as schizophrenia. He was released as "cured." A year ago, he and Natividad were defendants in a civil suit filed in Yuba County by one José Raya; Raya won $250,000 in damages against Natividad for an attack, apparently with a machete. No judgment was entered against Juan. Police believe Natividad fled to Mexico two months ago. The Rev. Joseph Bishop...
...professor of Korean Studies; Michael Walzer, professor of Government, Chairman of Social Studies; Donald P. Warwick, lecturer in Social Relations; Philip M. Weinstein, assistant professor of English; James D. White, assistant professor of Chemistry; George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity; Thomas H. Wilson, professor of Physiology; Ronald G. Witt, assistant professor of History; Laurence Wylie, professor of the Civilization of France; Herbert C. Kelman, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics; and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science...
...among other tributes, 23 honorary doctorates and two Pulitzer Prizes: of a stroke: in Menlo Park, Calif. After beginning his career as an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post, Nevins gained an early reputation through a number of historical books and in 1931 became De Witt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia. Nevins' first Pulitzer came in 1933 for Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage, his second in 1937 for Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration. The last of his eight-volume history of the U.S. from 1847 through the Civil War will...
...East Amherst, N. Y., Richard J. Bowker '72 of Mather House and West Roxbury, Elizabeth R. Fishel '72 of Barnard Hall and New York City, Laurence P. Meyer '70-3 of Eliot House and Palo Alto, Cal., Meredith A. Palmer '73 of Barnard Hall and Los Angeles, and Matthew Witt '72 of Leverett House and Los Angeles to the Editorial Board; Sarah W. Davis '71 of East House and Shrewsbury, N. J., Margot R. Hornblower '71 of North House and Washington, D. C., Dennis D. Loo '73 of Thayer Hall and Honolulu, Hawaii, and Susan B. McLane '71 of South...
...change of mood from the first to the second Mabuse is complete. Each character of the second is typed, limited, almost judged in a hard, bitter manner. In the place of the ambivalent de Witt we have a pig, Inspector Lohmann, whose chief distinction is the dread in which petty criminals hold him. A practical detective, Lohmann works not by mental penetration and battles of the will, but by reconstructing acts men have already committed. He uses physical clues to track down the master criminal where de Witt tried to discover his identity and scize Mabuse himself...