Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks for your reviews of The Snake Pit and Albert Deutsch's The Shame of the States [TIME, Dec. 20]. They both show our need for better facilities and staffing for our mental institutions. Twice I have been resident in Elgin State Hospital (Ill.) as a patient ... It is my belief that mental illness is no more serious than many other of the serious illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and heart trouble...
...Courbevoie worker wrote: "This is our last hope." Recently Garry Davis filled the Salle Pleyel and the Velodrome d'Hiver, two big auditoriums in Paris, with cheering thousands-crowds such as only Charles de Gaulle, and possibly Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, could attract. His committee of support includes Albert Einstein, who cabled that "only the unbendable will of the people can free the forces which are necessary for such a radical break with the old and outlived tradition in politics"; the U.S. ex-Communist writer Richard Wright (Native Son) is another Davisite. Says Wright: "Can the peoples believe...
...near future the UADC intends to send an anti-draft lobby to Washington. Next spring it plans a peace rally at which it hopes to have Albert Einstein as guest speaker...
...back toward the log fire by flirting with her boss (Franchot Tone). The boss is not skittish about marriage; he has tried it before. To knowing moviegoers, that sods him down. He stays in the running, all the same, until the ingenious huntress invents a third swain (Eddie Albert), meant to be a home-town admirer who yearns to take her away from it all. For a while, this invention staves off a trite ending, but can't prevent it. The chase ends with the proper man properly bagged...
Where Were You? In Sterling, Ill., Albert D. Martin sued two policemen for $10,000, complained that if they had arrested him for drunken driving five minutes sooner he would never have had a smashup...