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Private's Progress (Boulting Bros.; D.C.A.) is a novelty among British war films; instead of focusing on the stiff upper lip of the British Tommy, it tickles his soft underbelly. The film is irreverently dedicated to the goldbricking gladiators of World War II: "To all those who got away with it," adding, "The producers gratefully acknowledge the official cooperation of absolutely nobody...
...campaign whipped up by the local press and an outfit calling itself the "Fluoridation Education Society of the Carolinas," Mayor Leon Schneider of Gastonia, N.C. ordered a halt to fluoridation of the city's water. Symptoms falsely attributed to the tooth-saving fluoridation process: "excessive thirst, spine becomes stiff, nausea, mental alertness deteriorates, nails become brittle and peel, vision becomes blurred." One hysterical woman phoned the mayor: "People are dying like flies." In contrast, the U.S. Public Health Service reported soberly and scientifically on the tenth year of fluoridation in Grand Rapids, Mich.: it has reduced children...
...first act, but later became insipid in her farewell scene with Teresa. Joyce White as Sister Marcella was miscast; she lacked the youth and radiance that this nun, who secretly keeps a mirror to catch sunbeams with, should have. In the male roles, Donald McAllister as the Doctor was stiff, formal, and didactic where he should have been casual, worldly, and sarcastic. As Antonio, Robert J. Morris was earnest enough, but substituted too much savoir faire and pompousness for what should have been a certain degree of awkwardness before the nuns...
...forget that after all, they are the Gishes. Lillian especially kept the passions within her a little too well hidden. Charron Follett, as the excitable, Gigi-like Laurel, had a part which could easily have been overplayed, but she handled it very well. O. Z. Whitehead was stiff at first but afterwards quite engaging as the butler. Only Frances Ingalls, as Laurel's young mother, was much too unsure of herself and marred an otherwise admirable production...
...listing on the Big Board of the New York Stock Exchange, a corporation must meet some stiff requirements. The company must prove that it is stable, show net earnings of at least $1,000,000 the preceding year, have at least 1,500 stockholders. But there is a back door to a listing that has been much easier to slip through. Unlisted companies have bought up the corporate shell of a firm listed on the exchange, thus picked up the listing with no trouble. In other cases companies have sold out everything but the listing, then gone into a different...