Word: dog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his cream-colored Beverly Hills mansion, aged (85), ailing William Randolph Hearst periodically sends down orders to the 17 daily Hearstpapers for a new blast against an old hate-the vivisection of animals by medical scientists. Hearstlings dutifully grind out editorials and cartoons assailing vivisectionists as "dog torturers" who experiment on animals for the joy of "seeing them suffer...
Help from Dogs. Columnist Deutsch also repeated a conversation with Dr. Prinzmetal at a medical meeting in Chicago last summer, when Hearst's doctor was demonstrating an earlier heart technique involving radioactive sodium (TIME, July 5). Dr. Prinzmetal said he had tested his radiocardiograph on "scores" of dogs before it was used on humans and "our development of the radiocardiograph would have been impossible without dog experimentation." Asked Deutsch: "Then you don't advocate anti-vivisection?" Replied Dr. Prinzmetal: "On the contrary . . . medical research would be crippled without judicious use of animal experimentation...
...Return of Rin Tin Tin. It is such a satisfaction to see a movie that has no drinking, no suggestive scenes and dialogue, that I'll take a good clean horse or dog show any time...
Anything but frothy and rarely funny, the film turns a gay dog of an artist (Louis Jourdan) loose in the happy home of a stuffy, successful pediatrician (Dana Andrews) and his wife-receptionist (Lilli Palmer). Stung by the doctor's smug criticism of his art, the tempestuous painter cuts him down to size by trying-almost successfully-to break up his marriage. In the process, the picture tries-and always fails-to palm off drivel as drollery. Sample: a long, witless sequence in which the artist weeps for some lobsters that are boiled alive for the doctor...
...mixture may look higgledy-piggledy at first glance: in England, for example, Eliot believes that culture includes "Derby Day . . . dog races . . . the dart board . . . boiled cabbage cut into sections . . . the music of Elgar." It also includes the English bishop's characteristic gaiters-in fact, religion and culture tend to become so intertwined that bishops appear to be "a part of English culture, and horses and dogs ... a part of English religion...