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...mildly heroic doctor uses conforms to actual techniques is unimportant because it all seems quite plausible. A series of unhappy experiences in childhood and adolescence has left his subject unable to cope with marriage. A frustrated writer of sorts, she fluctuates on the border between sanity and insanity amidst the worst possible surroundings: misguided, often stupid doctors and nurses, fellow patients who would upset a rational mind, and hospital facilities that can lead only to depravity...
...wheel frightening machines in and out of doorways. Parents habitually come and go during visiting hours. The arrival of dinner wagons for listless appetites is strictly punctual. Everywhere there is white and order: the stiff jackets, smocks, and bandages, the precise reports and charts, the crisp doctors and nurses. Amidst these antiseptic surroundings, in the children's ward of a large metropolitan hospital, spontaneous good times are rare. Someone from outside must bring diversion...
...rose-festooned Ritz Hotel suite in Paris with her sixth groom. Having demoted herself to a baroness, Barbara beamed nonetheless at her attentive husband, once Nazi Germany's top tennis ace, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46. He had met Barbara about 18 years before in Cairo. Amidst toasts at the Ritz, the baron recalled: "We liked each other very much right away, but we decided to wait a few years before getting married." Chimed in the baroness: "I ought to have married him then." After several more stirrup cups, the reporters departed with the baron on their heels...
...Amidst the confusion, each party has a stabilizing factor. In the G.O.P. Dwight Eisenhower could-if he would-be an important force in selecting the nominee. Among Democrats, Harry Truman can-and he will-exert considerable influence. No matter what either man does, the prospect for the U.S. is a yearlong, two-ring political circus that may well be the greatest show of its kind in U.S. history...
...crowds of West Germans circulating amidst the gleaming chromium and tingling scent of new leather at Frankfurt's 37th International Automobile Show last week, there was much to be proud of. Flashy B.M.W.'s and new models of such prewar favorites as the Mercedes showed plainly why the revived German automobile industry is gobbling up more and more (21.6%) of the world's export markets...