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...were drinking harder than ever. A movieland 1945 Oscar went to the portrayal of a drunk; the book from which the story was taken was a bestseller. In a new sourcebook, Contemporary Criminal Hygiene (240 pp.; Oakridge Press; $4), Psychiatrist Robert V. Seliger of Johns Hopkins and Psychotherapist Victoria Cranford, a coworker, reported that there are 600,000 chronic alcoholics in U.S. institutions and no one knows how many outside; 2,000,000 heavy drinkers; about 38,000,000 "social drinkers...
Last week, by a 2-to-1 majority, Georgia citizens voted the amendment into their Constitution, thus giving the vote not only to Seaman Cranford but to 85,000 girls, who cannot serve their country in the armed forces until they...
...Cranford...
...keep the picture, the best of the British war films to date, from being a straight documentary. A cruiser is sent to convoy a fleet of merchant vessels from a European port (presumably Norway) to England. The problem is complicated cinematically because 1) the convoying cruiser's Lieut. Cranford (John Clements) is supposed to have run away with, then deserted the wife of Cruiser Captain Armitage (Clive Brook); 2) crusty old Captain Eckersley (Edward Chapman) of the tramp steamer Seaflower prefers to go it alone, keeps dropping out of the convoy, unconsciously betraying its presence to German U-boats...
...BRITTON Cranford...