Short Reviews

Date:: 1966-1967

Reference:: PP/CRI/I/2/6/6

Credit: Short Reviews. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$£hip'i£hore Prelude to the Duel For affairs of honor, in old New Orleans, there were coffee and pis tols for two at dawn under the duel ing oaks. The coffee was one of fire and courage—rich, New Orleans cof fee of world renown. <3^ Now, true New Orleans coffee— French Market Coffee, laced with tra ditional chicory—is available at fine stores everywhere. Or write American Coffee Company, Inc. P. O. Box 52018, New Orleans, La. 70150. is that vitalism—the notiojn that living matter obeys laws of that are qualitatively different from those governing non-living is, as a philosophical tenet, rapidly being routed by the new discoveries in biology. And so to those of y who may be vitalists, Crick co eludes, I would make this proph ecy: what everyone believed yester day, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow, deed, modern biology has made such tremendous steps in revealing the mechanisms of life that it is hardly possible to give a definition of the term life that would allow one tc separate it from the rest of matter. In his lectures, Crick gives a clear, witty summary of contemporary bio logical thought, and makes it evident that the problems raised by it will be more difficult to cope with than the discoveries of modern physic Note : Putnam has published Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revis ited, by Vladimir Nabokov. Most of the chapters in the book first ap peared in The New Yorker. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection. MYJTER.Y AND CRIME Creeping Hours , by Hugh ;t (Dodd, Mead). John Jer- ich®, the enormous, red-haired fa- painter who enjoys helping waifsymd strays when he has noth ing el\e to do, performs without his i this somewhat macabre i very young and obscure Tommy Nolan, and a very 1 phenomenally successful l _er, Zelda Rankin. Zel- 3 crowdA which is mainly com posed of different varieties of bullies, including the longhairs, dominates the book, anti it is their spirit of brutality and \their lack of humor that make Jericho's efforts in the cause of justice Veem a trifle faded. The scene is New\York. This column's report\on Blue Cross and Blue Shield has stirrèd up a hornet's . The column charged Nthat insurance companies have used medicare as an ex cuse to cut back services, canopi thousands of policies, and pocket the We also reported that medic only 40 per cent of hospital costs. This was wrong. The program actual] 40 per cent of all medical costs^ This was wrong. The program actually 40 per cent of all medical costs. ButVth- erwise the column was not wrong.—Dn Pearson in the Syracuse Post-Standard. Just tiresome. AT T71 ITT Petit Rhum Ba Ba's Ì.V JJj VV in convenient cans Sixteen rhum-soaked, buttery cakes make a generous dessert for four. They are delicious straight or served with ice cream, whipped cream or any dessert topping, such as Ferrara's Cherries Jubilee or Ferrara's Bran- died Cherries. Write to Ferrara, New York for dessert suggestions. vmzm New York 10013 ABBE LANE is a loviri spoonful in the PERSIAN ROOM January 11 -February 7 Performances at 9:15 & 12:15 For reservations call Plaza 9-3000 THE PLAZA w AIR TRAVEL BARGAINS 1967 WORLDWIDE GUIDEBOOK IPgUHjig Airline executive teljs ^secrets how to |et im woodman page_s L^ a u d r ® p 3*525 S ou t h S A m e r i ca Si v/diiuucdii, racific, Around-the-World, U.S.A. Tour ....el Bargains. Used by travel agents. Send $2.00. IR BARGAINS, BOX 408-N, Coconut Grove, Fla. 33133.$

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