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Jubol (Columbia). "I like my coffee strong enough to float a pistol," somebody says to this movie's hero (Glenn Ford). The hero nods. It just can't be too strong for him, because he has the worst kind of trouble a hombre west of the Pecos can have-short of having his horse eat locoweed. He has woman trouble (Valerie French). It's bad enough that she is the boss's wife. What's worse, the boss (Ernest Borgnine) is Glenn's best friend...
Serving as his own guinea pig, Dr. Lilly stripped himself naked, put on a skin-diver's mask for breathing, and was suspended face down in a tank of warm, slowly flowing water. In this "dead man's float" position, he was almost as out of this world as if he were still unborn. He could see nothing. He could hear nothing except his own breathing and faint water sounds from the piping. Except for the face mask and the gently touching supports, he could feel nothing. The temperature of the water, 94° F., made it feel...
...dead man's float" experiment has been tried so far with only one person besides Dr. Lilly, but other scientists, especially in Canada (TIME, Oct. 4, 1954), have subjected many human guinea pigs to degrees of isolation almost as complete. All have reported strange and often alarming effects on the mind, and usually a good deal of difficulty in becoming readjusted to normal life...
...Moneymaker. The son of a back-country Swiss doctor, Ditisheim became a Basel banker specializing in international finance. He made his first killing in 1931 arranging a $100 million debt payment by Russia to Germany. Six years later he helped Nationalist China use its silver hoard to float a $10 million war loan. He has always enjoyed spending money as much as making it. Coming to the U.S. in 1941 "to retire," he first lived in California, then bought a house in Tarrytown, N.Y., played polo, water-skied, flew small planes. After his wife persuaded him to stop flying...
...perhaps it is the atmosphere that has become more relaxing and more colorful. A few authors with typewriters and beards peck and hunt for a minute, then close their eyes and listen for five. Touch-tackle games flourish only to pause when the refreshing pinks and powder-blues float...