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Henreid tries to make love like Boyer and falls miserably, while smart-aleck Garfield, though he often over-plays his supporting part, steals the show. A verbal tiff between Coulouris and Garfield, injects a little social consciousness into the story, with good effect. Except for Henreid and a young woman whose name is new and easily forgotten, "Between Two Worlds" is well acted and well directed; it's just too long and knocks itself from grade A by artificial loftiness...
From Makeshift to McGusty. The Suva Medical School began back in the 1880s with verbal instruction (no textbooks, no laboratories) by the British Medical Officer at Fiji. For the first 40 years it was only a makeshift. In 1928, bulky, energetic Dr. Sylvester Maxwell Lambert, who spent 20 years in the South Pacific for the Rockefeller Foundation, persuaded the Foundation to help. In 1929, the Suva School dedicated a new dormitory and mess hall. Enrollment was increased from 16 to 40, extended to include non-Fijians. In the 1930s, pathological and bacteriological laboratories were added. In 1940 a European nurse...
...diplomatic cheating preliminary to the next outbreak of armed conflict. Mr. Lippmann is Adler's particular semantic bete noire, for Mr. Lippmann is always using the word "peace" when Adler thinks he should be speaking of "truce" or "armistice." The average reader may think this a matter of verbal quibble, for Mr. Lippmann uses the word peace with the full knowledge that there are kinds and degrees of peace. But to Adler the only sort of peace worthy of the name is the civil .peace that exists inside a sovereign government. Leagues, confederations and alliances cannot achieve or keep...
...days later MARCH OF TIME, which had obtained Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's verbal permission to film the gates of one of New York City's Jewish cemeteries for the same film, got a telephone call from the police captain of the cemetery precinct. He said no pictures could be taken. M.O.T. took the pictures anyway, and police took the names of the camera crew...
...verbal contest with Haverford Thursday will concern an international, instead of domestic, problem. The subject is as follows: "Should the United States enter a military alliance in which Russia is a member?" Eight o'clock is the time set for the debate...