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...Children. "The worst trouble," the priest said, "is with the youngest children in the primary schools. A little girl once asked me: 'Father, why do those bad Americans poison the poor Korean children? Why do they put insects in the water?' You have to be in Poland to appreciate the difficulty of answering such questions. Some crazy [Communist] teacher had stuffed the children's ears with this nonsense. If I say that the teacher lies, the child will tell her at the first opportunity, 'Father said you were lying.' That is why I patted...
...said at once and with emphasis that no worse treatment of the chilled mountain wayfarer could be devised-far better today would be a Thermos of hot milk . . . In rescue work, whether in shipwreck or in exposure to cold on land, alcohol should be avoided as a veritable poison. If the rescued persons are brought into a hot room or given a warm bath, some justification for a modest dose of alcohol might be advanced, but certainly not before. Many a life has been needlessly thrown away through the belief that alcohol gives the body heat...
...found just what he was looking for. Young first offenders, as he wrote last week, were locked up in filthy, verminous cells with second and third offenders, dope addicts and sexual degenerates. One aged psychopath, who screamed all night, four days after his release committed suicide by taking rat poison. For exercise, his cellmates' chief amusement was to strip to the waist and beat one another black & blue. Young prisoners staged "aspirin" parties to get "high" by grinding up aspirin and tobacco which they rolled into cigarettes. Not satisfied, they took a fling with dope, buying it through...
...picture that takes a calculated risk of being a box-office flop. Julius Caesar is the first effort by M-G-M to film Shakespeare since Romeo and Juliet lost more than a quarter of a million dollars in 1936. Shakespeare is supposed to be box-office poison, but Mankiewicz and Producer John Houseman think they have a sure-fire script. Says Mankiewicz: "It's a good, rip-snorting piece of blood & thunder coupled with eternally new and true-for-today character studies...
...heartburn (as in A Handful of Dust). More often, he has kept his anger uppermost and merely hinted at a grumpy sympathy with mankind. But in Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7, 1946), he made his first major effort to express fully both sides of his divided self-to give poison only where poison was due, to cool boiling oil with holy water...