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...pregnancy hate to lie flat on their backs-many complain that it makes them feel weak-but nobody knew why. There is good reason for the phenomenon, Dr. William F. Mengert of Southwestern Medical College reported last week. The heavy-laden uterus can press too hard on the big vessel (vena cava) carrying blood back to the heart, and thus cause a dangerous drop in blood pressure, or shock. Dr. Mengert hopes that his discovery will save such patients from needless operations, because the real remedy is so simple: turn the woman on her side...
Robert Newton, chewing at all the scenery, seems to be having a wonderful time in the title role. Good decorative note: Linda Darnell as a fiery wench who flounces around Blackbeard's vessel in a series of stunning plunging necklines...
...Harvard student probably stems from the fact that he did his undergraduate and graduate work here. A History and Lit. major, he graduated in 1939 and began teaching at St. Mark's. He entered the Navy soon after the beginning of the war and served on an anti-sub vessel until a month before the U.N. conference in San Francisco...
...Tangier Harbor into the Strait of Gibraltar, bound for Malta, one day last month, laden with $100,000 worth of U.S. cigarettes. It was the 20th century; the sky was blue overhead; ten kegs of good Holland beer were stowed below, to complement the vessel's small water supply, and the captain's own son, Cornelius, was in charge of her ancient but serviceable diesel engine. "We're going to have a fine trip," shouted Captain Van Delft down the engine-room hatch to Cornelius, and Cornelius agreed...
...year, which equals the payroll of the entire mining industry in the province. The U.S. will make some $2,500,000 worth of local purchases in the coming year, plus another $500,000 worth of PX supplies. Such incidentals as a $100,000 charter fee for a motor vessel to transport island supplies, almost $87,000 rental paid by off-base servicemen and $16,000 tuition to local schools attended by children of military personnel, help to give the economy a powerful shot...