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Cagney becomes a ragged, drink-wheedling bum. Only his fright after a narrow brush with death under the wheels of a truck, and a night in the alcoholic ward, make him want to stop drinking. With the help of a reformed lush (James Gleason), he painfully succeeds, though he never loses the craving for the one drink that he knows will start him skidding downhill again...
...cure children of espanto (nightmares caused by fright), the bruja uses a kind of primitive shock treatment. The child is set in front of a container of water in which bougainvillea blossoms-or some other red flowers-are floating. When the child's attention is caught by the flowers, a relative squirts a mouthful of alcohol on the back of the child's neck, and the bruja claps a red cloth over its head. The treatment for clubfoot is simpler: the curandera rubs the afflicted foot with gourds filled with "magical" water containing wine and vinegar...
...spirit of awe and fright that I rise to make a few remarks," said Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas, and grimly tackled the $61 billion defense appropriation. Since the bill would "turn over one-fifth of our national economy to the military," he thought it deserved a thorough scrutiny on the Senate floor...
Casals himself was pleased as Punch with his strenuous three weeks in the open. "Last year, at the first festival, I suffered from stage fright because I hadn't played in public for so long. Now I enjoy it all immensely." At one point in mid-festival, a bit tired from the heavy load of rehearsals and performances, the 74-year-old maestro felt faint for a moment, had to pause briefly before going on. But this week, apparently none the worse for wear, he was getting ready for three weeks of recordings, talking about another festival next year...
...wife and his daughter's in-laws (Billie Burke and Moroni Olson) begin jockeying to get their loving hands on the expected child. Tracy himself is drawn into the contest as they compete with offers of house space, gifts, suggested names. He suffers other pangs: the fright of finding his daughter a back-to-nature devotee of childbirth-without-fear; the nuisance of patching up her jealous spat with her husband (Don Taylor) ;the strain of rushing to the hospital for a false alarm. His grandson completes the torment by taking a special dislike...