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Last week, after a three-year sojourn in a Naples asylum, Pia stood trial for murder in Como. She readily confessed the killing in a 104-page deposition burning with passion. But, she said, "I didn't want to kill him, only to intimidate him." Why? Because the brute Sacchi had not only broken off their affair; he had done it via a form letter-sent at the same time to five other mistresses...
Right from the start, Cronin formed the two-sided habit of proudly sticking out his neck and humbly accepting the spiritual chastisement that invariably followed. His pride took a sharp beating in his very first job, in the clinic of a lunatic asylum: he was nearly strangled to death by a patient whom he had urged the superintendent to release as "such a decent chap." It took another beating at the hands of the crusty old general practitioner who took him on as an assistant and harnessed him mercilessly to the back-breaking round of rural practice...
...Johannesburg last week Paton announced that current world conditions had left him feeling so "uncertain and politically frustrated" that he and his wife were going into seclusion for a year or more. His asylum: a Negro tuberculosis settlement some 25 miles from Durban where he will help with the manual labor.* A switch on the real-life story of Commander Howard W. Gilmore. Mortally wounded by Jap gunfire on the bridge of his submarine, Gilmore ordered his men to "Take her down!", rode to a hero's grave to save his craft...
...success than Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal, a massive volume of bogus reminiscences. Maria's mother later testified that her daughter had never been in any convent, but, because of a childhood brain injury, had been confined in a Montreal asylum...
...still speaking his disordered thoughts at the top of his lungs. But to the literal eye of the camera, the ranting salesman (Fredric March) seems so appallingly extreme a mental case that it becomes hard to believe that his wife, sons or neighbors would not rush him to an asylum. The madman in Loman, as he is played in this film, is constantly overshadowing the man himself...