Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deutsch found New York's Rockland State Hospital, the "Juniper Hill" of The Snake Pit (see CINEMA), one of the best, but even Rockland was 30% overcrowded, with 6,100 patients jammed into space intended for 4,700. "The hospital needed at least twice as many doctors, twice as many nurses, and three times as many attendants to provide adequate care and treatment . . . Often only one attendant watched over two wards for homicidal patients. There weren't nearly enough recreation workers or occupational therapy workers to help Rockland's patients on the road back to mental normalcy...
...skewering to TIME'S Cinema Editor for violating the first rule of picture previewing: Keep Awake...
Died. Edgar ("Slow Burn") Kennedy, 58, bald, veteran cinema comic (henpecked star of The Average Man two-reelers); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...Gelotte it has been something of a business bonanza too. Last Saturday, for instance, he sent two cameramen and $1,000 worth of cinema machinery to Ithaca for the Dartmouth-Cornell fray, to two Boston area high school games, and to Worcester for the Holy Cross-Fordham game; and he sent four cameramen and $2,000 worth of equipment to Soldiers Field for two shootings of the Brown-Harvard encounter and to Newton for two filmings of the Boston College-William & Mary game...
Married. Sabu Dastagir, 24, chesty, India-born cinemactor (Elephant Boy, Black Narcissus), wartime 6-24 tailgunner (he won the D.F.C. in 1945); and Marilyn Cooper, 20, blonde cinema bit player; in Los Angeles...