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Helen Hayes, Orson Welles (Fri. 9:00 p. m. CBS) in Campbell Soup's version of Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith...
...Herelle prematurely decided that he had a cure for all bacterial diseases, and phage became a sensation. (The young doctor in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith was a phage researcher.) More than 50 different phages were found, and some of them were photographed by ultraviolet light in ultra-microscopes, revealing diameters of two to 90-billionths of a metre. They were tried out as cures for cholera, dysentery, blood poisoning, boils and other diseases, but on the whole proved disappointing. Some bacteria seemed to acquire an immunity to their phages. Some phages worked well in test tubes, failed in human bodies...
Woolly-headed Fatty Pfaff, in Arrowsmith, set out for his medical examination with a set of notes in his pocket, not to peek at but in the hope that their contents might soak through his skin. Last week was in many a U. S. college the week of midyear examinations and woolly-headed students were glad to get any kind of last-minute cramming advice...
...Junior Varsity game, Harvard came close to victory when Harry Alexandre slipped two goals into the net in the early part of the game. Yale tied the count, and then Captain Cecil Arrowsmith, kept the Crimson in the running by tallying another goal. In the last period the Elis tied the score once more and then took the lead on a complicated series of passes which resulted in the final score...
Junior Varsity--g., Riecken; rf., Gosline; lf., Morrisson; rh., Witkin; ch., Jacobson; lh., Burbank; ro., Parsons; ri., Sachs; c., Arrowsmith; li., Alexander; lo., Sinnott...