September 26, 1971

LONDON—Ancient sailors found rough passage in the straits between Sicily and Italy. On one hand was the Rock of Scylla. On the other was the Whirlpool of Charybdis, and monsters of mythology infested each. Scylla and Charybdis were equally dangerous alterna tives. The avoidance of one risked encounter with the other.

NYC Comr Ruskin says city may have been defrauded out of 'millions of dollars' by some transportation cos in Medicaid program who take disabled poor persons to outpatient clinics and physicians' offices when they are unable to use pub transportation; officials rept city has apparently been charged for repeated round trips for persons who have been 'dead for mos'

CINCINNATI, Sept. 25—?? Giants couldn't do it in the day, light, either. For the second time within 24 hours, they lost by a 6‐5 score to the Reds, to further complicate the Western Division race in the National League.

A Lewis article paying tribute to Black terms him 'an elemental force'

ANYONE who's been reading the sea sonal announcements knows that fewer scripts are scheduled for this year than for last, and everyone who was around last year knows that last year was a new low. Even where money is available, plays aren't. And though we have a small handful of ex citing young playwrights now on the way up, a handful isn't going to be enough to keep Broadway solvent or Off Broadway busy. We're going to need more, and we're going to have to cook up some way of getting them. In the circumstances, I guess, there's nothing else for it. Actors are going to have to start writing their own plays again.