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...husband's case was so critical that Mrs. Jones feared that Dr. Thompson would refuse to operate-because he would not want to spoil his good record. "But life is more important to Dr. Thompson than statistics," she says. After 19 days of observation, Father Jones underwent the ticklish operation. Four weeks later he was back home in Indiana, able to walk up & down stairs and stroll outdoors. He hopes, in six months, to be back in active ministry...
...Said Harry: "A picture is just an expensive dream. It's just as easy to dream for $700,000 as for $1,500,000." Production Boss Jack Warner picked topical stories out of the headlines, produced such smash hits as Public Enemy and Little Caesar. He tackled many ticklish social issues which other studios avoided, such as bad penal systems (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang), lynching (They Won't Forget), labor conditions (Black Fury). With Disraeli, the Warners started a cycle of film biographies; with 42nd Street, set the style for modern musicals...
Fearing that its treatment of ticklish religious questions might offend Roman Catholics, officials at last fall's Venice Film Festival refused at first to show the picture. But though God Needs Men ventures into the same delicate area as Director Rossellini's controversial Miracle (TIME, Feb. 26), Catholics apparently found nothing to object to in Director Delannoy's handling of the theme. After the Venice officials reconsidered their ban, God Needs Men took a grand prize at the festival, later won a special award from the International Catholic Film Office...
...Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December 1944, it became plain to all hands that Captain Queeg was not enough of a seaman to save the rusty, 1918-model Caine. When steady Lieut. Maryk, the executive officer, relieved the impotent captain under ticklish Article 184* of Navy Regulations and took over the ship, it seemed to the crew a reprieve from death. But so far as Queeg was concerned, it was mutiny...
...commodore actually means as well by Farbridge as he does by himself. He needs money, the town needs a little fun. By promoting a festival, the commodore intends to see that both needs are satisfied. From there on, his task resembles, in its ticklish reconciliation of opposites, the difficulties of a con man trying to play Santa Claus...