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Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster Trevor Howard makes a superlative curmudgeon of Captain Bligh...
...Leasor asserts, England was nearer to capitulation "than anyone now likes to admit." Winston Churchill was so afraid of the effect the peace offer might have on British morale that his representatives came to interview Hess disguised as psychiatrists, so that no word of continued government interest could possibly leak...
...problem in the 4-0 loss to Penn was the defense. Penn, definitely not a solid offensive team was able to leak several easy goals. With Davies having moved up front, the Crimson defense tired late in the game. The Princeton game may pose much the same problem, with a late Tiger press bringing havoc around the Harvard goal. Lou Williams and Terry Winslow at fullback have been the only defensemen able to stem repeated attacks...
...pressure caused by excitement or strain may burst it. Occasionally and unpredictably, the break is self-sealing and the scar may make the artery wall stronger than before, but more often a fatal flood of blood is spilled into the brain cavity. Usually, the aneurysm first develops a warning leak that causes a severe headache and stiff neck, and a test will then show blood in the spinal fluid. Among the estimated 100,000 cases of brain aneurysm each year in the U.S.-most of them caused by congenital weakness of an artery-probably 50,000 patients' lives might...
Dangerous Leak. Last June Dr. Gallagher operated on a man of 40 with a dangerously leaking aneurysm. After opening the patient's skull, he fired a hog's hair into the aneurysm which was ten times as big across as its parent artery. Within 15 minutes, clotting had set in and the aneurysm was shrinking. Dr. Gallagher fired in five more hairs. By the time he finished closing the patient's skull, the aneurysm was less than one-third its original size. The patient later died of causes unrelated to the operation. But within a month, Gallagher...