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Hour after hour, every day, hundreds of itchy victims trooped into the nine treatment centers set up by the city's brisk, go-getting health officer, Dr. Joseph Gimby. Each child's head was examined under a special ultraviolet lamp which makes infected areas show up fluorescent. Where the fungus* had a foothold, the patches were marked and, down the line, were clipped. Many boys and a few girls were completely shaved...
Some of Playwright Patrick's individual remarks are original and funny; several of his scenes are brisk and entertaining. But the play as a whole suffers badly from a frantic mixture of styles (all the way from George Abbott to Barrie) and from a sameness of subject matter. The "guests" at the Cloisters can only trot out their obsessions; the old lady can only defy and deceive her stepchildren. And the staging, which might have given the play a nice airy unreality, makes most of it noisily blunt...
While the public wondered how long it would be before it actually gets color TV, the industry went on with its brisk little backstage civil war. Last week the uproar over the Federal Communications Commission decision approving CBS's field sequential system of color television (TIME, Oct. 23) grew louder. Items...
...Bunnies threatened to score in the latter part of the third quarter when tailback Sam Paschal carried through the line to the seven-yard line. After a five yard penalty for back in motion, Paschal ran to the six, where Lowell's 215-pound lineman Dave Brisk stopped...
...thought Vag, how can one remain impartial in a football stadium on a brisk fall day? Is it not better to cast logic to the winds and wave the dear old flag and be bloody but unbowed...