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Captain Newman, M.D. is a colossal, Eastman-Colored recruiting poster that makes a peculiar proposition: join the Air Force and see a psychiatrist. Unhappily, the Air Force turns out to be the same old Hollywood Air Farce; the psychiatrist (Gregory Peck) too often acts as if Captain Newman were Private Hargrove; and the moviemakers seem relentlessly determined to popularize psychosis. In this picture, paranoia is personable, sadism is scenic, catatonia is cute, and life on the funny farm is fun, fun, fun! It's fun to be truth-drugged by Psychiatrist Peck, a living doll of a twitch doctor...
Dicey, Mumbo and Sheikie were bosomless chums at St. Agatha's, an all-too-proper girls' school in the south of England. They carried on like so many Peck's bad boys in bloomers, planted a gelignite bomb in a bicycle shed, conned free rides in horse-drawn victorias, raced down High Street frothing at the mouth with lemon sherbet powder to convince townspeople that they were possessed by devils. But their biggest adventure in that ill-fated summer of 1914 came the night they buried a coffer of "valuable treasure"-dog chains, bones, a message...
India won the skirmish, but the U.S. won the war. Ralston, the Peck's Bad Boy of tennis, for once kept his temper under control, beat Krishnan at his own sandy game, with short volleys and dinky drop shots that won in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1, 13-11. Texas' Chuck McKinley, mounting the same kind of whirlwind attack that earned him the Wimbledon championship, needed only 72 minutes to dispose of India's Permjit Lall, 6-4, 6-3, 6-0. Ralston and McKinley then won the doubles to give...
...reading of his letters. He was rich: he was young and successful: and the diamond of his genius seemed as big as the Ritz. But the letters inexorably trace him to a Hollywood hotel where he worried about his weekly rent and Scottie's account at "Peck & Peck & Peck & Peck & Peck." He wondered aloud in letters to his agent, Harold Ober (who coldly cut off his credit), why the price of a Scott Fitzgerald story had gone down from $3,500 to $250. "Are they not worth more?" he asked...
...average per hen: 200 fertilized eggs yearly). Automatic incubators coddle more than 50,000 eggs at a time, radioactive isotopes trace what goes on inside chickens to find better nutrients, and each chick is vigorously hormonized, vitaminized (A, B, D, E, K) and de-beaked so as not to peck at any other birds during its short life...