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Stewart Smackenfelt seems incapable of doing anything else. He is, in fact, the most considerate character in all of De Vries' 17 novels. An intermittently employed actor, Smackenfelt begins his good works by servicing his id-his bestial Freudian self, whom he calls Blodgett. It lusts after Ginger Truepenny, who is not exactly Smackenfelt's mother-in-law, but close enough. She is the aunt who raised his orphaned wife Dolly, who spends most of her time writing plays. By such tasteful amendments does De Vries remove the curse of incest without seriously weakening the underpinning...
...patronzing travesty of Italian inefficiency and hurrsucracy. Such jokes must build on one another to be successful, until one caps the sequence, but Avanti! lacks the pacing needed to make a scene more than a succession of little jokes. Only near the end, when Edward Andrew enters as J.J. Blodgett of the State Department, does the film hit its stride...
Freezing Blood. At a recent meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks in Chicago, Dr. Paul Wolf of Stanford University and Dr. Robert Nalbandian of Blodgett Memorial Hospital in Grand Rapids, announced their success after three years of experiments. They emphasized that they had built on the pioneering studies of Makio Murayama of the National Institutes of Health. Murayama observed that abnormal cells, which carry sickle-producing hemoglobin S, gel at normal body temperature when oxygen content is reduced, then return to normal...
According to James Blodgett, Managing Editor of the Californian, the question of ownership of the newspaper is based on a murky agreement made in 1954, when student membership in ASUC was made mandatory by a university-wide referendum...
Money from the fees was used by the ASUC in the building of new offices for the Californian. Blodgett said last night that the administration has repeatedly claimed that since the Chancellor's office collects the membership fees, it is in fact the owner of the ASUC and thus has final control over the operation of the paper...