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Lazily rocking on his back porch Saturday noon, the star boarder of the Poon thought he smelt a seersucker burning. After a quick huddle and a fruitless search for their insurance policy, the amateur fire-sniffers voted 23 to 2 to let the place burn down. Someone, however, had already asked the local hose-and-axemen to "send a man over." He came, but he brought his friends: three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks and one rescue squad. No smoke, no fire, obviously a false alarm. Whether or not the whole thing was a stunt to increase sales...
Almost unique for a period chiller is the simplicity of the plot: it's about a pianist (Boyer) who marries (Bergman) and, for the sake of a few diamonds, tries to drive his wife mad to get her put away and enable him to search her house for the coveted stones. Joseph Cotten is a hawkshaw from Scotland Yard who pulls the here act. Director George Cuckor carries the audience along with all the stages of deliberately produced insanity partly by keeping the plot moving and partly by knocking all of the "For Whom the Bell Tolls" freshness...
Maybe TIME'S Medicine department will never again have the opportunity of being the first to present a piece of news of such towering significance as the story of penicillin. But that will not stop TIME'S Medicine staff from its quiet and patient search, week in, week out, for the best in fact and presentation to make the whole world's medical news make sense for the layman...
...Once-mighty Truk was attacked in daylight by a lone Navy search plane which bombed two supply ships in the harbor, then compounded the indignity by strafing an airfield...
...William H. Feldman, of the Mayo Clinic, told the Society that tuberculosis will probably succumb to a drug some day but that it is too early to evaluate any drug tried so far. For the sake of Europe, which is suffering a wartime tuberculosis increase, they urged that search for such a drug be speeded...