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Hollywood got rich by selling escape, but the postwar movie cycle about persecuted minorities (Crossfire, Pinky, Home of the Brave) showed that grim truths and touchy subjects pay off, too. By last week the moviemakers had begun peddling a new cycle that some fans might find even grimmer and touchier. Already on the schedule were films about cancer (No Sad Songs for Me), paraplegia (The Men), poliomyelitis (The Young Lovers), smallpox (The Frightened City) and leprosy (Who Walk Alone...
Stories like these have a surface resemblance to the grimmer work of Cartoonist Charles Addams; the difference is that Walter de la Mare never suggests for a moment that he may be joking...
...grimmer side was an accident to varsity wrestler Alan F. Sawyer, Jr. '53. Sawyer broke a leg when the car he was driving crashed into a truck yesterday morning, Worcester City, Hospital reported him as "fairly comfortable...
...Lying-in Hospital, he witnessed the horrors that were to haunt his life and give it purpose. One out of every three women who entered the First Division ward died of childbed fever; most victims' babies died too. In other parts of the world the story was even grimmer. At Jena over a four-year period, the death toll among infection victims was 100%. Among "causes" of the fever, doctors who had never heard of the germ theory listed wounded modesty, cosmic-telluric influences, fear, bad ventilation, climate and a feeling of guilt...
HERMAN J. V. GRIMMER JR. San Salvador, El Salvador