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Fortnight ago the London Daily Mall published an anonymous confession by a "kind-eyed, elderly country doctor" stating that, for mercy's sake, he had done away with two defective newborns and three agonized adults (TIME, Nov. 18). Last week the storm of controversy and comment blown up by...
Mary Burns, Fugitive (Paramount) is evidence that, if the cinema is not quite ready to call off its exploitation of G-men and supergangsters, it feels driven nevertheless to eerie heights of implausibility in search of new twists. Sylvia Sidney, naïve proprietress of a roadside restaurant, falls in...
"Five times have I taken a life. . . . "The first case was a newborn child, clearly doomed to imbecility. With the squeeze of my finger and thumb, I had taken a life. "In the second case, the child was born without a skullcap. "The third case was that of a farmer...
Scopolamine is a hypnotic drug made from henbane. As scopolamine hydrobromide solution it is widely used for inducing twilight sleep at childbirth, for quieting maniacs, drug addicts, alcoholics. Some years ago the late Dr. Robert Ernest House of Ferris, Tex. discovered, on administering scopolamine during an obstetrical case, that his...
THE BOOMERANG CLUE-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Few constables and no Scotland Yard men mar the course of detecting by young Bobby and his girl Frankie. Romance survives near-murder, drug ring, kidnappers, a motor "accident." Too soon comes a nicely individual ending. THE THREE COFFINS-John Dickson Carr...