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Womanhandled. In Seattle, Longshore man Roy C. Pruett filed suit for $10,000, claimed he "suffered severe nervous shock . . . was battered, hurled, jerked and bruised" when he was thrown from a bus by Woman Driver Dorothy Castagno...
...when Minister Lyttelton returned to his spacious, robin's-egg-blue office on the third floor of the Ministry of Production, he found his assistants milling around in consternation. The interpolated words, cabled to the U.S., had practically exploded in Washington. The shock was all the greater because numerous British experts in both the U.S. and Britain had slaved to gather material to make the speech a convincing show of U.S.-British good will, with accent on reverse Lend-Lease. Several versions of the speech were cabled back and forth, checked down to the last word. Minister Lyttelton promptly...
Modified globin, one of the newest substances used in transfusions, was described by Dr. Max Maurice Strumia of Bryn Mawr, Pa. It is made from red blood cells, keeps well in salt solution, is so successful in preventing blood fluid from leaking into the tissues (as in wound shock) that, if globin were made along with plasma, each blood donation would go four times as far as at present...
...Doubtless there are good things in both, as well as bad," he replied. "I think it is right that there should be new movements, suitable to new generations and periods. They shock and disturb those who are attached to the old institutions, but they are not meant for them. It is true, of course, that although they are intended to be 'for the people,' they end up by being for those who are running the State...
Deprived of his bitter social implications, the Ape bums and blasts his way through a rudderless melodrama. Deprived of his ferocious eloquence, thanks doubtless to censorship, he talks like a tough guy who is trying not to shock his grandmother. Deprived of his tragic ending, he becomes, in retrospect, a not very convincing sailor ashore. Unfortunately, his screen creators have tried to compensate for these deficiencies by making him funny...