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...Follow the Girls," Dave Wolper's new musical comedy at the Shubert Theatre, has all the trimmings of a good show; yet viewed a an entity it hardly approaches the rare standard of entertainment perfection. A slap-happy public will probably clasp "Follow the Girls" to its collective breast and acclaim it as "grand entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 3/10/1944 | See Source »

Salter's alcoholic patients condition themselves to hate liquor by repeated doses of self-hypnosis. In treating neurotics, the psychologist helps patients relieve themselves by making a clean breast, under hypnosis, of their unconscious fears and troubles. In What Is Hypnosis Salter offers a breath-taking project: teaching autohypnosis to soldiers. Says he: "Simple mass procedures applied to soldiers could quickly filter out one of five or at worst one of eight who can quickly be taught to make themselves immune to such sounds and pains as they wish. It is not impossible to imagine battalions of self-anesthetized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Svengali Revisited | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

When "Bull Bill" Jeffers bowed out of Washington as Rubber Czar last September, he flatly announced: "The big job is done." In the long months that followed, optimism flowed from the Rubber Director's office; full-page, breast-beating advertisements of many an oil company happily assured the U.S. that the Battle of Rubber had been won. But last week, a sheaf of ominous straws fluttered out of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBBER: The Bottom | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...About 60% of women with cancer of the uterus or breast have a hard, raised bony protuberance where the hard palate joins the soft palate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bodies Make a Difference | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...novel (Hallelujah; Harper; $2.50) is a rather abstruse triangle. Lily Browne, a widow, seemed "a startled-looking little girl, whose round hat with ribbons would be forever slipping backward on her head." Quiet, modest, gentle, nevertheless "in her underslip, the translucence of pale flesh shone on her arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality, headlight eyes, "neither Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No. 22 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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