ISSUE DATE: May 11 1963; VOL 236 NO 18, 4/11/63

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THE COVER: portrait of LEO DUROCHER was made by Larry Schiller at the Los Angeles Dodgers' training camp in Vero Beach, Florida.

ARTICLES:
The Sick Need Care, Not Research (Speaking Out) By Dr. Louis J. Vorhaus.
The Welfare Mess By Lois R. Chevalier.
American Princess in the Himalayas By Nancy Wilson Ross.
"I Come to Kill You" By Leo Durocher with Edward Linn.
Jewels That Crawl. By Walter Jan Fischman.
Chicago's Mayor Daley: The Last Dinosaur By Alfred Balk.
How Katanga Fell By Blame Littell.
JACK (PAAR) of all Tirades By Jack Jams. "As ringmaster of prime time show, JACK PAAR still stirs up tempests in the TV pot." [NICE article on PAAR, with photos.]

FICTION: The Oldest Story By William Saroyan. Illustrated by Joe Cleary.

DEPARTMENTS: Letters; Post Scripts; Hazel; Editorials.

THE TRAP of public welfare ensnares everybody. Taxpayers are caught up in a system that cost them $4.1 billion in welfare money last year. Social workers and Government officials are awash in a sea of red tape and mind-boggling regulations which hamper proper administration of public relief. But worst off of all are the recipients of public-welfare money, the poor people whom the system condemns to pauperism. For many people on relief, it is economically unsound to go to work -- they plainly are better off cashing in their welfare checks each month -- and in many instances a reliefer who wants to earn his own keep is effectively prevented by welfare regulations from getting ajob. Hopelessness is the lot of most recipients of the dole, for the system offers few avenues of escape once a needy person has accepted his first welfare check. The scope of the problem is enormous: 6.7 million Americans received public assistance last year. How did the nation get itself into this mess, and what is the way out? This week, in a carefully documented report which highlights the poignant plight of the public-welfare family, Lois R. Chevalier tells how humane intentions to help the helpless have boomeranged into a problem of colossal proportions.

OTHER BYLINES. In journeying to far Gangtok to cover the royal wedding of New Yorker Hope Cooke and Sikkimese Prince Thondup, novelist Nancy Wilson Ross pursued a lifelong interest in oriental affairs and culture. Her most recent book, The World of Zen, has been called by Aldous Huxley the most authoritative work on Zen Buddhism to date . . . . Veteran sportswriter Ed Linn collaborated with Leo Durocher on his life story. The result is The Lip's own account of his rise from small-time pool hustler to colorful cutup of big-league baseball . . . . New York News columnist Walter Ian Fischman developed his own bug for the Bug -- or Makech beetle -- when he went to Mexico to find out about living jewelry. . . . Freedancer Alfred Balk lives in Chicago, where he once was a news-paperman and where he has had an opportunity to observe how the Windy City's mayor bosses his town . . . . Blame Litteli, Paris bureau chief for CBS News, recently completed a two-year stint in Africa for his network. He says that "Katanga is a crazy place, but a reporter can become horribly fascinated by it. After a while there you realize that as long as the world is a crazy place you might as well stay in the craziest corner of them all." . . . Jack Iams, who took his'first appraising look at comic Jack Paar as television critic for the New York Herald Tribune, moves in this week for a closer view.
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