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...Brigadier G. B. Chisholm, brilliant head of the Canadian Army's medical service, is the only psychiatrist to hold such a job. (Philadelphia's famed Dr. Edward Strecker thinks all Army medical services should be headed by psychiatrists.) Brigadier Chisholm called soldiers' mental breakdowns "a disability of the English-speaking peoples. . . . A whole generation has been taught not to fight. From earliest childhood a boy is trained not to run risks so as not to break his mother's heart. . . . The result is that in the Army there is an emotional attitude toward getting hurt." Brigadier...
...still can't believe it's true; not having to make up our bunks except on change-of-linen day, only two of us to a room, adequate closet space, the beautiful laundering Mrs. Thomas does for us, and our wonderful Mrs. Rose Chisholm to whom we're all always indebted...
Texas (Columbia) is a wild and woolly Western with plenty of gunplay, hard riding, skulduggery, cattle-rustling along the old Chisholm Trail. Its story is the old one about the two unreconstructed buckaroos bang-banging their way through the post-Civil War Southwest looking for work and trouble. One (William Holden) turns bad and dies with his boots on; the other (Glenn Ford) goes straight and wins the heroine (Claire Trevor...
...Author Cronin has been in the U.S. writing articles and making speeches for the British Ministry of Information, "doing my best to convince people that democracy is worth saving." He is a slight, sandy-haired Scot with white eyebrows and eyelashes, and about as unaffected and honest as Father Chisholm. Meeting him for the first time, a hard-boiled newspaperman has been known to wire his office: "His face is a sort of composite of all the face of humanity plus the combination of austerity and kindliness you find in so few faces...
Born (July 19, 1896) in Cardross, Scotland, Author Cronin had a fatherless boyhood full of hard labor and poverty, much like Father Chisholm's. He pulled himself out of it with the help of Carnegie Foundation scholarships and his uncle, a poor, kindly Catholic priest (the model for Father Chisholm). By working until he often dropped exhausted, Cronin became a doctor. But he really wanted to paint or write. Hatter's Castle enabled him to give up medicine: he has never practiced since...