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Pesky Problem. The source of Sault Ste. Marie's epidemic was plain. Last March five youngsters with ringworm were allowed back in school too soon after routine treatment by their family doctors. All summer the disease spread (encouraged by a long damp spell and barbers' unsterilized clippers). Not until school opened did authorities realize how far it had got out of hand...
Wearing a mannish hairdo, Joan Crawford plays the overneat Harriet Craig with sexy emphasis. As her thoroughly housebroken husband, Wendell Corey is careful never to drop ashes on the rugs, sit on the arm of the sofa, or put a damp glass on an end table. Besides riding herd on Corey, Joan bullies her servants, snipes at the inoffensive widow next door, tries to break up K.T. Stevens' romance with William Bishop. Her ineffectual villain'es come to a head when, to prevent her husband's going alone to Japan on business, she defames...
...best sections of Collected Impressions are those which deal with damp-rotted Irish country houses, with Author Bowen's school days, and with her own maxims on novel writing. Samples...
Oarsmen at Oxford University had their minds on "Eights Week," and most undergraduates were sweating out their finals. But neither these distractions nor the fine spring weather last week could damp down the philosophical war that has been raging between Oxford's logical positivists and Oxford's believers...
Felton, a six-foot-two 190-pounder, established the record in a damp and windy setting. An official called a foul on another heave which would have broken all records by an American and Felton was surprised at the call. Reporters at the meet said it was "almost invisible" it Felton's foot stepped over the seven-foot circle. The invalid throw measured 190 feet, 2 1-2 inches...