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From a fellow inmate in the hospital, where the craziest are happiest, Jim learns the reverse twist of an old common-law principle as applied to madness: "They don't have to prove that you are. You have to prove that you're not." Trying to prove his sanity, Jim nearly topples off the brink of reason. He is pushed toward the edge by the inquisitions of the psychiatrists, and by the maddening knowledge that Ann will let him rot in asylums unless he returns to her arms alone. At last, all yearnings for independence crushed, any chances...
...colors and Marty starts telling her things he never told anybody before -hardly even himself-about the war and the awful time after he came home. He can't stop talking and people are looking at them but neither of them notices until all at once in the craziest place right beside a big empty brick wall with his heart shining out of his face and his eyes filling up he hears himself saying in a shaky voice, "Yuh got a real nice face! Really a nice face...
...used every trick in the book to keep them afraid, keep them horrified. His craziest fan, Lady Caroline Lamb (TIME, Oct. 11), fell dramatically in love with him. When she cooed, "Should you like to see me waltz with any man but yourself?", he replied that "he should have no objection whatever, upon which with no more ado the fair Lady whips a knife into her own side." Fortunately, observes a cynical onlooker: "Venus . . . interposed in the shape of a pair of stays, so that the blow was by no means fatal...
...this crazy!" cried she. "It's just the craziest thing that ever happened to me." And things promised to get crazier yet. At week's end Mrs. Deibel was told to brace herself for a new surge of silver, touched off by the kinescope of Moore's show when it was telecast in cities which had not received the live program...
Tutelage & Torn Pants. Italian moviemakers may give her time for more than that if they are not very careful. The awful truth: the Italian movie industry is just about the craziest thing constructed in Italy since the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and it may fall down and go broke at any moment...