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...Hippocratic oath, which bids a doctor hold as "holy secrets" anything that he learns in his practice, is not binding when disclosure might prevent harm or danger' to others, wrote Surgeon Edward Clifton Dawson in the British Medical Journal. A big majority of polled doctors and laymen agreed that if a railroad engineer suffers from epilepsy but refuses to tell his employers, the doctor should do so. The margin was much narrower in favor of his telling the police the name of an abortionist that he had learned from a patient...
Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). The topic "Love in America," discussed by Alistair Cooke. Faye Emerson, Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, Clifton Fadiman...
...example of advanced arrogance there is none to beat Clifton Webb. He sneers with such patent grandeur that, in Laura, one would never suspect that just before he had been a partially aging, and totally opened a career for him that found its peak in the now Waldo Lydekker, raconteur, bonvivant and egomaniac, opened a career for hom that found its peak in the now legendary Lynn Belvedere...
Woman's World (20th Century-Fox) is a petticoat version of Executive Suite, with the big job depending this time as much on the wife as on the man. The waspish corporation boss (Clifton Webb) summons his three top district managers; the best man & wife team will get the vacant general managership. The three nervous couples show up: an ulcer-ridden, self-made man (Fred MacMurray), at odds with his wife (Lauren Bacall); a tough, reticent Texan (Van Heflin) and his full-bodied, social-climbing mate (Arlene Dahl); a family man from Kansas City (Cornel Wilde...
Conversation (Sat. 8p.m., NBC). Good talk, with Jacques Barzun, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Dr. Glyn Daniel, Clifton Fadiman...