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Because there is no real cure for alcoholism (a reformed drunkard is never more than one drink from disaster), Yale's alcohol researchers have concentrated on prevention. Last week Dr. Elvin M. Jellinek, the bustling director of their studies, reported a little progress: his investigators had discovered how to spot an incipient alcoholic. A drinker who 1) gulps his drinks, 2) sneaks a few on the side, 3) worries about his liquor consumption, 4) stops talking about his drinking, 5) begins to "pull blanks" (i.e., forgets what happened during his bouts) is likely to become a hopeless drunk within...
Brilliantly played by Kirk Douglas, this weak-willed, fear-ridden, drunkard of a district attorney is the only man outside of Van Heflin who knows about Barbara Stanwyck's murderous past. He also is married to her. But she loves Heflin, and when he comes back after eighteen years that starts trouble. But Lizabeth Scott loves Heflin too. But Heflin can't decide between Miss Scott and Miss Stanwyck...
...drunkard is not "a moral and social outcast" - though many church people have taken that unchristian view, says the Rev. Alson J. Smith of St. Paul's Method ist Church, Brooklyn. An alcoholic is "someone who could be helped and [is] worth helping...
Grand Inquisitor. James Boswell was a drunkard, a tomcat, a toady, a conceited ass and at times a consummate nuisance; but he produced almost as great a book as Gibbon's, and thanks to his inveterate good nature and high spirits, probably had more real friends. Some of his biographers have been unable to get past Boswell's faults and a few have tried to argue them away, but Mr. Quennell has done the pudgy Scot exact justice. He has seen-but also seen past-the clown who strutted about the Shakespeare Jubilee in Corsican fancy dress...
Detroit A.A.s give credit for the broadcast project to 62-year-old William Edmund Scripps, big boss of the Detroit News and WWJ. He was so impressed by A.A.'s reformation of a drunkard friend that he decided to do what he could to boost the organization's Detroit membership (now nearly...