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...shrunken body, doctors gave him large amounts of vitamin B complex, beef essence, apple pulp, plasma. Sulfa drugs and penicillin helped clean out the small army of virulent germs. Now Thin-Man Goddard has pushed his weight up to 121 Ibs. (normal: 156), and can walk a little. In two or three months, perhaps, he may leave the hospital...
Unhampered by the plethora of schmaltz that dogs many similar American efforts, MGM's Swiss-imported "The Last Chance" well deserves the title of the most intelligent non-documentary film to come out of this war. There have been more complex plots, more natural dialogues, and more starting acting, but the powerful impact of "The Last Chance" makes a good many box office smashes look somewhat green around the gills...
...President went back over parts of his wage-price policy, gave Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles the signal to tell U.S. business the vastly complex new regulations under which it now must operate (see BUSINESS...
...Franco Bahamonde has never suffered from pallid faith in his own star. "God is with me," he said in public last September, "and those God helps along never fail to win." His path to totalitarian power has been religious and ruthless, stubborn and supple, medieval and modern, simple and complex. For almost three decades he has been a man of violence and inquisitorial intolerance. He hunts wild boars and rojos ("reds," meaning practically all political opponents) with equal intensity. Yet he has seldom failed to say a nightly rosary with his wife Carmen and daughter Carmencita (now 19). His most...
Last March, suddenly overwhelmed by conscience, City Councilman Sullivan dreamt up a clever way to turn his delinquency complex on the city. "The cause of delinquency," quoth he, "is the pinball machine!" Since logic is logic, his next deduction was simple. "Let's ban it!" he beamed...