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Segregationist by creed but able lawyer by profession, Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman is no man to fool around with racist lawlessness. Last month, when a bunch of masked toughs broke into a jail at Poplarville (pop. 2,500) to abduct and kill an accused Negro rapist named Mack Charles Parker, Governor Coleman acted swiftly and sensibly: he asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter the case. From that point on, event followed event with the predictability of a Pearl White flicker...
Physicians who are overconfident of germ-killing wonder drugs are living in a fool's paradise where their patients may die. This is a favorite theme of Boston's Dr. Maxwell Finland. Most doctors have rationalized that, although the sulfas and antibiotics let some resistant microbes slip by, they save so many lives that their occasional failures stand out more. The "increase" in such cases, they argue, is only relative, not real. Last week Dr. Finland attacked this defense. In his saddest jeremiad yet, he asserted that the antimicrobial drugs have caused an actual increase in severe infections...
...soon realizes what a fool he has been: Luisa is pregnant, and they have nowhere to go. In desperation, Natale decides to build one of the "abusive dwellings"-one-room squatter shacks-that spring up overnight on empty lots in Rome, and may not legally be torn down if they have a door and a roof by the time the police arrive in the morning. The rest of the picture describes the young couple's struggle to acquire by criminal conspiracy what De Sica obviously feels to be theirs by natural right: a roof over their heads...
That the forces striving to make a great big fool of American man have struck a winning streak is the contention of Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University professor who would like very much to nag at the U.S. conscience if he knew where to look for it. It is not at the U.S. as such that Barzun fires his bullets; it is at the modern world at large-"egalitarian democracy, mass education and journalism, the cult of art and philanthropy, and the manners coincident with these...
...Collier's staff writer, draws heavily on scholarly studies of the expedition, has also carefully rechecked the sources. And he has a good newspaperman's respect for telling in unexcited prose the breathless story of men in peril. Dominating all is Shackleton, the incredible leader, the fool-hero who never surrendered. Shackleton was dead within six years, felled by a heart attack at 48, as he mounted yet another assault on Antarctica. It may have been just as well. His finest hour as an explorer was when he brought the battered Trans-Antarctic Expedition back to civilization...