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Doctor at Sea is a most appropriate title for this latest British contribution to broad brawl-and brothel humor. The Rankmen have wandered from the drawing room to tackle slapstick of the old formless Hollywood kind, and they seem almost as uncomfortable in this role as their earnest young doctor who is forced to cope with unreasoning sailors and voluptuous prostitutes. Given a crude genre, however, Doctor at Sea still manages to be highly amusing, to an uncritical audience...
...knowledge that he sits too far down the farmer's table to reach for Millie's hand. Their romance is not so much star-crossed as double-crossed, and Cam has to call on both his hobo and Pacific jungle lore to win an eye-gouging barroom brawl with his chief rival. Cam's and Millie's dilemmas are overwritten and underfelt. But in Minnesota-born Author Cahill's book, old nature, and not young love, is topic A, and for his evocations of a wheat field un der hail, the dancing fury...
...Have we fallen so low?" cried the Paris-Presse. "After the insults and tomatoes that greeted Guy Mollet in Algeria, nothing more was needed to stain the regime than a brawl between the representatives of the people...
FARMINGDALE, N.Y., Feb. 24--Mass picketing and violence were outlawed yesterday in the million-dollar-a-day Republic Aviation Corp. strike at Farmingdale, N.Y.--but not in time to prevent a new mob brawl...
...other Cassandras besides McCarthy crying out in the land, and it is likely that Senator Knowland, for one, would be a greater beneficiary of widespread public disillusionment with "the spirit of Geneva." In politics, as in boxing, the heavyweights supposedly never come back. Yet it was an exciting brawl while it lasted. And the men who came not to praise McCarthy, but to bury him, have been wrong before...