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...whatever he liked-that would help him not to drink. The idea was that though Bill was always willing to let himself down, he might be more reluctant to let God down. Bill tried it, found that he had no trouble resisting the desire to drink. He was cured. He told his discovery to others, and the cure spread. These reformed drunkards called themselves "Alcoholics Anonymous," now number about 400 in towns all over the U. S. They do their missionary work on their own time, as an avocation...
...made by the Czechs from one of the last plays of their late great playwright, Karel Capek (R. U. R.), is reported to have been smuggled out of Czechoslovakia shortly after the German invasion. It is a lurid appeal for pacifism. Dr. Galen (Hugo Haas) has discovered a secret cure for a leprous epidemic which is slowly killing off the human race. Dr. Galen lives in an unnamed dictatorship. When its dictator (Zdanek Stepanek) and his munitions manufacturer (Vaclav Vydra) contract the disease, Dr. Galen refuses to cure them unless they stop making wars. The manufacturer kills himself. A patriotic...
...salvos at President Roosevelt John Lewis thundered loudly on unemployment and the New Deal's failure to cure it. But precisely what he thought Mr. Roosevelt ought to do, beyond calling a conference to discuss "America's No. 1 problem," Mr. Lewis did not say. For an inkling of what might be done, his delegates had to turn to a book published and distributed last week-Organized Labor and Production (Harper; $2.50) by Morris Llewellyn Cooke and Philip Murray...
...very famous woman novelist," con tinued Dr. Lewis, "came to consult me not long ago about her neurosis. I recognized her trouble and told her I could cure her but she would no longer write novels if I did. She, of course, desired treatment, but I decided that it would be a pity to destroy a fine novelist and so I refused to cure her and so she is continuing to write fine novels...
...famous pianist came to me and asked to be treated for his trouble. I warned him that I could cure him but that he might never play the piano again. He begged me to go ahead. . . . Well, I have cured him but he is no longer a great artist of the piano. He is now a fine mathematician." Similarly, he said, a "cured painter" became a well-known photographer...