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...Story. Adapted by Writer Riskin from an old Century magazine story called A Reputation by Richard Connell, Meet John Doe begins modestly enough in the office of a newspaper which is firing many tried & true employes. A young girl columnist (Barbara Stanwyck) angrily invents as her last column a letter signed John Doe stating that he will protest against civic and general corruption by jumping from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. When the fake is about to be disclosed, the girl gets her job back by suggesting that an appropriate John Doe be hired and interviewed daily...
...that, and he didn't goose her!-he's in love." Sounder chuckles come when the producer (Reynolds Evans), a solemn amateur chef, rapturously breathes out his formula for the preparation of gumbo. Making her Broadway debut in the play is Designer Norman Bel Geddes' daughter Barbara, 18, who should continue to do well in parts requiring a plump, pleasant young person with a babyish voice. But father Geddes, who preferred Barbara as Amy in last summer's Little Women at Clinton, Conn., has a different design for her, wants her to go back to school...
...TIME wishes ex-Reader Nicholson well during his intellectual hibernation. It recommends that he also read Black Beauty, The Swiss Family Robinson, The Winning of Barbara Worth...
...Other well-known women doctors: Dr. Gladys Dick of Chicago who discovered the scarlet fever germ, famed Princeton Pediatrician Sara Josephine Baker, founder of New York City's Bureau of Child Hygiene, Columbia University Surgeon Barbara Bartlett Stimson, Philadelphia Public Health Expert Martha Tracy, Head of the American Women's Hospitals Esther Pohl Lovejoy, and Chicago's Surgeon Bertha Van Hoosen (TIME...
Left. By the late Franklyn Laws Hutton (TIME, Dec. 16), Manhattan broker: to the Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, "a loving father's blessing for her future happiness" (adding that what money he could leave her would be "quite inconsequential"); to his widow, Mrs. Irene C. Hutton, with whom he became reconciled after last year repudiating her debts, his entire estate...