Word: dorning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ages was more than twice as large for Negroes as for whites. One reason: "This [white] population is much closer to the maximum expectation of life attainable with present knowledge than is the Negro population." >"One of the most gratifying features," said the report by Statistician Harold F. Dorn, "was the uninterrupted decline in the maternal mortality rate which previous to 1930 had shown no decline since . . . 1915. . . . This rate declined 48% among white mothers and 34% among nonwhite mothers. In 1940 the two rates were 3.2 and 7.7 per 1,000 live births, respectively." >Death rate of infants under...
...Philip Dorn, who has his first starring role in this picture, shows that he deserves a better one. As a French industrialist who stays in Paris to collaborate with the Nazis, he has moments in which he almost makes the picture seem important. But the film, which starts as if it were going to be a portrait of a traitor, soon becomes just another melodrama...
Escape is also a powerful true bill against Naziism's ruthlessness. The villain of the story, rather than any individual, is the system. Its personification is in the machinelike personality of a Prussian general (Conrad Veidt), the helplessness of a sympathetic Nazi doctor (Philip Dorn...