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When Melvin Eugene Hewitt got into a brawl outside a Long Beach (Calif.) bar 2½ years ago, nothing was further from his mind than a contribution to medical research. But in his misfortune he made one. After he banged his head on a car and hit the sidewalk, Hewitt's heart stopped, and it was 15 minutes before doctors could restart it by massage. It seemed unlikely that Hewitt could live after such a long stoppage of circulation to the brain. Hewitt surprised his doctors...
Karl Mundt's first act as chairman was to order the files in the Schine case put under lock & key. Then he and Arkansas' John McClellan, the committee's senior Democrat, hoping at least to move the brawl off the political street corner and into the controlled conditions of the rope-bound ring, set about finding a referee-a fair-minded lawyer with unassailable reputation to take Cohn's place as chief counsel. As the search went on, Joe McCarthy headed for Chicago...
...From the moment somebody asks, "Is marriage a good idea?" the show falls gloriously apart. The artist and his wife's lover start by disagreeing about marriage in general, end by discussing their own particular situations in front of the enlisted personnel. Everything ends in a good, low brawl. Final shot: the chastened chaplain, a week later, seated primly in his empty auditorium, listening to the efforts of the May Savitt Qualthrop String Quartet...
...British army. Ex-U.S. Captain Ladd pretends to be a Canadian and volunteers as a private in the paratroops. He soon learns that, no matter what uniform they wear, noncoms are noncoms, and spends a fortnight in the stockade for slugging his corporal in a barroom brawl. But the picture soon demonstrates that it intends to be different: one of the tough top kicks, showing his squad how easy it is to bail out of a plane, plummets sickeningly to his death because his parachute fails to open. The other noncoms meet equally grim fates: the scrappy corporal loses...
...love with the girl. The other (James Gregory) is determined to kill her. With this suspenseful situation established in the first five minutes, Playwright Kantor then all but ignores it until the final curtain when the relatively good detective disarms the completely bad one in a technically skillful stage brawl...