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20th Century-Fox's latest over-advertised bid for immortality is a sea story which can be classified as a pitiful imitation of "Captains Couragous." The plot, ostensibly concerned with the New Bedford whaling industry in the 1880's, is actually a dull treatise on child psychology and the problem of duty versus humanity...
...union had demanded the increase for 30,000 workers in the New Bedford-Fall River area, which traditionally sets the northern wage pattern in cotton. (But not for such basic industries as autos and steel.) Arbitrator Douglas V. Brown, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said no. In professorial tones, he warned that the industry faced "a decrease of an insufficient increase in demand." (Translation: business isn't very good...
...system looks so promising that the hospital is now giving the special treatment to 200 patients, and other VA hospitals have adopted the treatment. One of the wrinkles added by the Bedford (Mass.) Hospital: a three-paneled mirror. It helps patients who slump along with bent head and shoulders to straighten up, look the world in the face...
Young Jezebel. She likes to run around her Manhattan hotel suite or "Windows," her twelve-room house in Bedford Village, N.Y., with no clothes on, and has to be prompted by friends when callers arrive. She also enjoys the bug-eyed shock on the faces of strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked...
...enclosed notice (see below) appeared in the Nov. 9th edition of the New Bedford Standard-Times. It would seem to me that the H. A. A. would take care of the requests of the students and graduates before they began to give out so highly prized tickets as contest prizes. It is no wonder that students and grads are lucky to get half-way decent seats for the Yale game. E. W. Talmage '50 E. P. Robbins...