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...decades the problems of human personality have puckered the benign and seamy face of Lewis Madison Terman. Dr. Terman, professor of psychology at Stanford University, has spent much time studying the personality factors that make for happy or unhappy marriages (TIME, June 24, 1935; Oct. 17, 1938). Another of his great interests is child prodigies. In Science last week Dr. Terman reported what happens to child prodigies when they grow up, get jobs, get married...
Cheeriest part of the hospital is a children's ward. Last year patients ranged from eight weeks to 14 years, almost a third had cancers, the rest benign growths. Last year, the ward provided its 68 patients with sliding boards, play tent, electric trains, a miniature fireplace with space for stockings at Christmastime. Last week, the children were busily painting pictures for Columbus...
Under the benign gaze of a life-size statue of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, the marquee of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles billed: "'Confusion Say' Vividly Illustrated...
...fading out of the picture very quietly and decently this time, with the consoling voice of Dean Hudnut murmuring in the background, "I do not consider it a tremendous calamity, if we have to suspend some of the courses for a year." The Dean sounds benign, but the last few years have shown that the Administration is something less than determined to continue the separate existence of the School. Budget restrictions have been blamed, and once the whole idea of regional planning in a national sense was attacked as smacking of totalitarianism. So it is significant that Dean Hudnut...
...this time John Garfield knows exactly how to play the part of an arrogant young tough. Ann Sheridan is learning to add acting to "oomph"; Pat O'Brien is always good as the benign influence, and his prison-warden in "Castle on the Hudson" is no exception. Sing-Sing has had its bleak face on the screen before--many a film star has gone over the dam there. But what makes this picture unusual is probably the fact that Warden Lewis "Twenty Thousand Years" Lawes wrote the original story. The gangster is neither reformed nor reprieved for the crime...