Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short-cut courses in psychiatry, the moviegoer has been shown very little of what can happen to him when he.ceases to be just interestingly neurotic and actually gets locked up. Few Americans are aware that more than half a million men, women & children in the U.S. are in mental hospitals, mostly state institutions; another estimated 7,000,000, although at large, suffer from some kind of mental illness. The state institutions are desperately overcrowded and understaffed...
Here & there the picture shows glints of a typically slick Hollywood finish. It is more specious than convincing when it tries to get across the point that schizophrenia is something that "can happen to anybody." And Virginia's cure, once she turns the corner, seems suspiciously quick, easy and well-timed for a happy ending (in reality, she might very likely suffer a relapse). But with all its minor faults, The Snake Pit is an important motion picture. One of its notable achievements is that it establishes Olivia de Havilland not so much as a star, a dubious title...
...15th time in as many years, Fred Allen announced last week that he was quitting radio. The satchel-eyed comic told New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "I'm going to sit around and think, and see what's going to happen with television." And he "may write. I have four chances to do books...
...home in a tree in Hundred Acre Wood was blown down on such a blusterous day as this. Thereupon an acquaintance did a Noble Thing. Since I didn't intend that what happened to my Uncle Robert should happen to me, I accepted the Noble Thing he allowed. He permitted me to have his old home...
...daily metropolitan league in which Massachusetts top racquets stare are playing for such teams as the Harvard Club, University Club, and the Union Boat Club. "I'II bet we play more often than any other sport at Harvard." Barnaby says. During the Christmas vacation, any Crimson team members who happen to be in New. York will have plenty of opportunities to keep in shape...