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Lady and the Tramp (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) draws a bead on the susceptible hearts of some 20 million U.S. dog lovers with a 75-minute Cinema-Scope cartoon of the romance between a high-bred cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp) from the wrong side of the tracks. But, in humoring dog lovers, Disney may well lose friends among cat fanciers for his venomous portrait of a brace of Siamese cats (named Si and Am) that are noticeably lacking in the virtuous qualities that abound in the canine kingdom...
...illusion in the old ambiguous world, where priests were spies and gallant friends proved traitors and his country was led blundering into dishonor." In a last "symbolical act," however, Crouchback burns papers he had brought out from Crete which would have proved that his fellow aristocrat-that faultlessly bred International Equestrian Champion Ivor Claire, whom he had once thought of as "quintessential England"-had funked and fled his command. This, in the relentless author of A Handful of Dust and The Loved One, is something new. In the evolution of Evelyn Waugh, mercy appears to have arrived to season justice...
This discrepancy between Eisenhower's popularity and his party's is sometimes explained in terms of the personalities of Republican congressional leaders, sometimes as a consequence of the irresponsibility bred by 20 years in opposition. Neither explanation is entirely adequate. The Republican Party is suffering from a lack of confidence in the theories and principles from which it sprang. It was the party of dynamic capitalism, of manufacturers and independent farmers as opposed to plantation owners, traders and the urban masses. It is a fascinating historical curiosity that in the era of capitalism's greatest practical success...
Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin, outspoken champion of a live-virus vaccine (TIME, May 23), suggested that all three paralysis-causing strains used in the Salk preparation be thrown out. In their place he would put nonvirulent strains, which may be found in nature or "bred" selectively in the laboratory. Knowing that his audience was far from ready to accept live viruses, Dr. Sabin cannily reminded them that these too could be treated with formaldehyde. This would give double protection, and a Swedish researcher is working on such a vaccine right...
Through a long summer she copes with daughters, coddles temperamental Roza the cook, and Toona the city-bred maid, who remarks ominously that "the country is awfully quiet." She gets distractedly involved in the church fair and in the problem of finding an extra man for a "little dinner" ("Charles says . . . he will attend to it. Am stunned with gratitude and surprise...