Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moralists may squirm at the fact that the lovers, while longing for a less dangerous life, seem to feel no guilt over their lawbreaking. They take real pleasure in the comforts gained by Granger's cut of a bank robbery and budget their ill-gotten hoard as if they had slaved for it. Working on the notion that bank robbers are a likable lot among themselves and get the same pleasure out of their work as any other skilled craftsmen, Director Ray and Scriptwriter Charles Schnee have served up some fine, entertaining scenes. Their best characters: Howard Da Silva...
Adam's Rib (MGM) again presents Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as the ideal U.S. Mr. & Mrs. of upper-middle income. This time, besides being wittily urbane, both are lawyers. The determined deadpan whimsicality of their relationship is indicated by the fact that he calls her Pinkie and she calls him Pinky. Hepburn's elegantly arranged bones and Tracy's assurance as an actor make them worth looking at in any movie, but the stars are called on for some aggressive cuteness in this one. Item: during a courtroom duel between them, Pinky is forever dropping...
...bestseller, Anna and the King of Siam (TIME, July 10, 1944), Margaret Landon let her bucket down into a deep well of Siamese history and personal experience (she was ten years a missionary in Siam) and drew it up full of a sparkling mixture of Eastern fact & fable. Her new book, Never Dies the Dream, is another bucketful drawn from the same source, but though the mixture is as before, most of the first, fine sparkle has fizzed away...
...Startling Fact. To track down this mysterious something, Dr. Diamond and associates decided to check on all the blood used in 179 replacement transfusions. Each donor's sex, age, and other data were marked by punches on business machine cards. Then the cards were run through a tabulating machine. From the machine came a startling fact: of 137 infants with erythroblastosis who got the Rh-negative blood of male donors, 27 died; of 42 who got women's blood, not one died...
Oblivious of this fact, Radcliffe girls got out their Angora mittens, motorists got out the chains and the anti-freeze, and Terence O'Reilly '19, night watchman of the Public Waterworks of Weston, prepared himself with...