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Advertisements announce loudly that David O. Selznick, the producer of "David Copperfield", is also the producer of "The Tale of Two Cities"-but don't let that deter you from seeing this latest revival of Dickens. The continuous action of this book lends itself to the movies far better than the Copperfield biography...
Neither cold weather nor a ruthless campaign of extermination will deter a colony of crimson ants from seeking nourishment in Wigglesworth F entry, Scraps of food, bits of toothpaste, and tender morsels of shaving cream are avidly consumed by the tribe of beasties...
...students. They pursue their training course in twelve months, during which they learn the intricacies of many machines and acquire some understanding of why the machines are used for certain ailments. Presumably they go to work for honest doctors. But there is little in law, custom or fact to deter them from buying a shiny machine or two and going into the medical business themselves. So many unqualified men and women have bought such devices and peddle their services that the Congress of Physical Therapy was obliged to declare last week: "Our aim is to take therapeutics...
Throughout the U. S. 20,000 persons kill themselves each year. To deter them from suicide is the prime purpose in the life of Rev. Dr. Harry Marsh Warren of Manhattan, founder-president of the Save-a-Life League. To the Civitan International meeting in Toronto Life-Saver Warren declared: "Among professional men physicians are most inclined to take their own lives. . . . Not more than one-third of those who kill themselves are mentally deranged. Unmarried mothers have the greatest propensity for suicide. Love is the most terrible thing in the world. . . . Women have gone to the dogs...
...kind word for nature's method of crop re- duction," observed Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to an audience of North Dakota farmers at Bismarck. "Man's methods may be full of imperfections . . . but they are perfection itself by comparison. . . ." The rainfall in the Midwest did not deter President Roosevelt in Washington from sending Congress a special message asking for $525,0.00,000 worth of "large-scale assistance" to be parcelled out as follows: 1) $125,000,000 to give farmers without fields work on roads, public buildings, wells. 2) $75,000,000 to buy half-starved live stock...