Word: amnesia
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...court-martial reduced the charge against 25-year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...
...President Roosevelt's appearance in the strip to get him out), his six years as a private in the U.S. Army (which made Palooka the hero of numerous recruiting posters), Ann's airplane crash in Wyoming (40,000 fans flooded Fisher with anxious inquiries) and her subsequent amnesia...
...brought back to his Pacific base from a dangerous mission to a Jap-held island, the Negro G.I., Moss (James Edwards), is Suffering from shock, which has paralyzed him from the waist down. Under the care of a sympathetic Army psychiatrist, Moss fumbles back through the fogs of amnesia to what happened on the island. He recalls his hatred of a Negro-baiting corporal (Steve Brodie), and his resentment of all white men, even his friends (Lloyd Bridges and Frank Lovejoy...
...movies. Hollywood has long since taken note of modern man's discovery, and worship, of the subconscious-that obscure force which has become more fashionable than God's or man's will as an explanation of all human acts. Various types of mental sickness (amnesia, etc.) have been used and used again as springboards for psychological thrillers. In fact, the theme has become so familiar that a relatively new visual idiom has been worn down into a bag of movie cliches (the close-up of the vague eye, the trick shot of all outdoors whirling round & round...
...estate in East Islip, L.I. While police sent out an eight-state "missing" alarm, he gave an I.O.U. for a meal at a restaurant, borrowed $5 for train fare to Manhattan, was finally picked up in a Lexington Avenue restaurant. His doctor's diagnosis: temporary amnesia...