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...from a fairy tale or a police blotter. Sometimes the archness is laid on with a trowel, sometimes the trifling action stops dead for overdetailed explanations. Bogart plays his role pretty straight; Aldo Ray is disconcertingly elfin for an alleged sex fiend; and Ustinov's mugging seems overdone. Basil Rathbone and John Baer wander onscreen long enough to look properly villainous. Joan Bennett and Gloria Talbott add their pretty confusions to the artificial turmoil. Technicolor gives the picture a fairly handsome mounting, but nothing can rescue the story from too much talk and too little...
...Stung by Dr. Sabin's attack, Foundation President Basil O'Connor snapped: "Old stuff." The Cincinnati researcher, he tartly recalled, has received $853,314.71 in grants from the foundation, which will continue to support...
...vaccine, by some unforeseeable magic, would peter out by August, when the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will finish inoculating first-and second-graders. Said Dr. Scheele. in a thinly veiled reference to the foundation's widely known determination to get an effective vaccine within Founder-President Basil O'Connor's lifetime: "You cannot make viruses meet deadlines." Largely because of this hasty effort, the 1955 polio vaccination schedule had been dangerously premature. Now, said Dr. Stokes, we have "a crippled vaccination program...
...BASIL MARTIN Duncan...
Other Eisenhower awards: a citation to the National Foundation, given to its president, Basil O'Connor, and pens and pocket knives for each of the Salk boys. Ike's advice to Jonathan: don't use that knife until...