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...Then drip around to 14 Plympton Street tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock, and meet the people who run the College's only course in journalism, CRIMSON editors. Guzzle some beer or coke and make your opening bid to Cambridge's breakfast table daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Comps Open; See No Lack of Beer | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...fondness for Arab boys, his rapturous admiration for statues of the male form, his habit of following strangers who attract him ("I go out a bit toward evening and shadow a couple of fellows who intrigue me"). Nothing, it seems, came to Gide so easily as tears. The Journals drip from crying jags brought on by Gide's reading, his music, visits to art shows ("visit to the Louvre . . . wept in front of the Rudes . . . in the theater the mere name of Agamemnon is enough. I weep torrents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aged Child | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Salt Solution? Last week Detective Bascou thought he had found the solution. Nurse Demussy, he said, was no murderess. But someone had been incredibly, perhaps fatally, careless. As standard treatment after an operation, he discovered, patients are given a salt-drip injection-one teaspoon of salt in a liter of boiled water. But the Mâcon Hospital nurses had become woefully unprecise: they had taken to dumping a tablespoonful, or even a fistful, of salt into half a liter of water-and given the solution as a rectal drip. Could such a strong salt dose have killed 17 women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Puzzle of the 17 Patients | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Late George Apley (20th Century-Fox), as a J. P. Marquand novel, was a cleverly genteel variant on the water-drip torture. The story told, in deadpan style, of the gradual destructiveness of a whole mode of life. Like the play which was made from the novel, the movie sacrifices the subtleties of gradualism for dramatic frame and focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1947 | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...just as soon as Melvin was out of diapers. At twelve, young Hall made his first tour of Europe (in a Pan-hard); at 17, he was ridden clear around the world; at 18 he attended George V's Coronation Durbar (1911) in India, watched the imperial sweat drip from the ermine band of the royal crown, while rajahs and princes made obeisance in robes of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Over the Hills & Far Away | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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