Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the case of the strange salt suddenly became more serious. A doctor in Ann Arbor, Mich, reported to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, that a patient was critically ill, apparently from lithium chloride. Two days later three doctors from Cleveland's Crile Clinic sent in another report: two patients (one 70, the other 60) had died and five others were ill, apparently from the salt. Dr. Fishbein asked newspapers and radio stations to issue warnings. Planning to reclassify lithium chloride as a drug instead of as a special dietary food...
...Sport in Paris, 19-year-old Harvard Freshman Dick Button gave twelve rivals a lesson in the art of figure skating, won the world's championship for the second year in a row. The women's champion, successor to the throne vacated by Canada's Barbara Ann Scott (now a pro): Czechoslovakia's winsome, 17-year-old Alena Vrzanova...
...Letter to Three Wives. A shrewdly observed exploration of three insecure marriages; with Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern (TIME...
...movie with a tearful title and containing a cast of Jeanne Crain, Ann Southern, and Linda Darnell, is likely to be by-passed by the discriminate moviegoer. That would be a great mistake in the case of "A Letter to Three Wives." It is one of the most witty, intelligent, and well-acted comedies within reasonable memory...
...letter saying "I am running off with your husband tonight." The action is then in flashbacks in which each wife recalls her married life to see if it has been such a failure as to force her husband to leave her. The best episode is the one involving Ann Southern and Kirk Doughlas. In it, Mankiewiez, through Douglas, makes a keen and cogent attack on the social status of the school teacher in America and on the candy-coated moralities daily gushing forth from the radio. Nothing is said, or shown, on these subjects, or any other in the film...