University Of Pittsburgh

AT least one fellow poet and friend has remarked to me tha Baltimore has an old-world flavor, old world meaning European. I can see that in some of the older sections of the city, especially the downtown area near the Washington Monument, and it is a character I haven't seen in Richmond, Macon, Atlanta or New Orleans, all of which I consider to be genuine Southern cities, cities I think of when people refer to Baltimore as being Southern, as they often unsuccessfully...

Beth Bryson, who headed several branch libraries at different times during her long career with the Enoch Pratt system before her retirement in 1976, died August 19 of cancer at St. Agnes Hospital.A memorial service for Ms. Bryson, who was 78 and lived on Kilmarnoch Drive in Catonsville, will be conducted at 3 p.m. today at the Leroy M. and Russell C. Witzke Funeral Home, 1630 Edmondson Ave. in Catonsville.Though she had worked briefly in Montgomery County after starting her library career in 1936, she spent most of her time at the Pratt.

Services for Robert E. Gicquelais, who worked for the state Division of Parole and Probation, will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at the Barranco and Sons Funeral Home, Ritchie Highway and Robinson Road, Severna Park.Mr. Gicquelais, who was 63 and lived in Severna Park, died of heart disease Sunday at North Arundel Hospital.With the state agency for about five years, Mr. Gicquelais earlier worked as a salesman for the J. B. E. Olson Corp., a truck body firm that transferred him to this area from Pittsburgh in 1963.

Robert E. Gicquelais, who worked for the state Division of Parole and Probation, died of heart disease Sunday at North Arundel Hospital. He was 63 and lived in Severna Park.Services for Mr. Gicquelais were being held today at the Barranco funeral establishment, Ritchie Highway and Robinson Road, Severna Park.With the state agency for about five years, Mr. Gicquelais earlier worked as a salesman for the J. B. E. Olson Corp., a truck body firm that transferred him to this area from Pittsburgh in 1963.

Washington. FROM LABORATORY PAYOLA to faked data and plagiarism -- it's all there in a new congressionally compiled sampler of sleaze in science.Read it and despair about the white-coated realm of truth-seeking, where it can be perilous to tackle intellectual crooks and profitable to compromise scientific independence. The science establishment has responded to the congressional allegations with assurances that it has cleaned up the mess and no government intervention is required. But isn't that what Wall Street said in the early days of its assorted scandals?