Word: amnesia
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...Love You Again (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) proceeds on the sound assumption that a conk on the head can gravely affect a man's deportment. Conkee is prim & proper Larry Wilson (William Powell), who thus gets over an eight-year-old case of amnesia, reverts to his former character of con man cum laude. He still pretends to be Larry Wilson for the sake of bilking his small-town cronies. His wife (Myrna Loy) walks through these comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance...
...many changes, reaching all the way down to the first year class, have just been completed, but for the past couple of weeks Dean Landis has been as busy devising a new offense as a football coach whose star wingback suddenly developed amnesia...
...those who have disappeared from Harvard since November 1937, F. William Burgess of the Law School was drowned, J. Wilbur Gould was found the victim of amnesia; and Robert J. Meyerson went to Utah...
...have probably heard about my difficulty, and I hope you won't mind me taking the liberty of writing you. I'm afraid I am a case of maladjustment or something. It has just come on recently, and I never had any trouble before. In college I never got amnesia or even fainting spells. I never even considered such a stunt as I recently read about of one of your boys paddling to Florida in a canoe, Have you had any luck with later life maladjustments? Very sincerely, Harold A. Gorilla...
Since the body was not in the river, perhaps Burgess was for some reason wilfully disappearing, or else suffering from amnesia. Circulars were sent out over the country. And three months later, ignored and forgotten, the river Charles divulged the decomposed body of the missing student. How did the body evade the grappling hooks and the diver, and turn up three months later half a mile down the river? Police state they "have no idea...