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...grave. When they speak of the site's future, some invoke Arlington or Gettysburg; others want their own private place to mourn. But to most, a memorial conveys a measure of finality that is still too much to bear. "The shock keeps me living in perpetual rawness," says Kimi Beaven, whose husband Alan perished on Flight 93. "As much as I would love to put my heart and mind around my husband's final resting place, I would far rather just let it be the peaceful place that it is; just let it be until I'm ready to honor...
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...JEAN BEAVEN ABERNETHY...
Since his fiancée died of a badly diagnosed appendicitis, stern Surgeon Forster (Akim Tamiroff) has lived for science, not for sentiment. His efforts to hew Dr. Beaven (John Howard) in his own grim image are upset when the younger physician meets exotic, black-banged, slitherish Audrey (Dorothy Lamour). An American brought up by Chinese, Audrey speaks English with a nursery-school singsong. Dr. Forster succeeds in breaking up their match in the interests of science, but he also breaks up Dr. Beaven, who sets out to hunt his Audrey among 450,000,000 warring Chinese...
Even single-minded Dr. Beaven unlimbers a little at the sight of suffering air-raid victims, stops his girl hunt long enough to patch them up. When Japanese undo his handiwork by bombing the hospital, a shrapnel splinter lodges in Dr. Beaven's scientific brain, stays there until Dr. Forster, rushing by plane, sampan and pony, arrives in time to remove it, in the most delicate operation of his life. Science, says he, can do no more, but science cannot bring Dr. Beaven out of his coma. When Audrey's timely arrival turns the trick, Dr. Forster piously...