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...Crawford Greenewalt...
Screen Directors' Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). The Lady Takes a Chance, with Joan Crawford, John Lund...
Next of the "backwoods obstetricians" to win Graham's praise was Ephraim McDowell of Danville, Ky. In 1809, he persuaded Jane Todd Crawford, 47 (and a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln), to travel 60 miles on horseback to his surgery, though she was very ill. Lacking anesthesia, Jane Crawford kept up her courage by repeating the Psalms while Dr. McDowell made surgical history with the first ovariotomy - and removed a 15-lh. ovarian cyst...
Louella Parsons, Hollywood writer, reported in a column last night that Brigadier General Crawford A. Sams, Visiting Lecturer on Public Health and chief of the Army Medical Corps in Korea, had received offers from several motion picture studies for the right to the story of his exploits...
...Actress Crawford rides her vehicle regally, though it moves too slowly now & then, and a good cast (including Eve Arden as the Congresswoman's flip secretary) trails along, tossing garlands of Playwright Fay Kanin's bright dialogue and remnants of her original message. On Broadway, the heroine's controversial documentary was an antiwar film. In the Hollywood version, she sponsors a movie preaching academic freedom. As the scripters handle it, this glib switch-no doubt an expedient one-leaves the issue so vaguely generalized that, for all the picture's righteous pounding, it rings pretty hollow...