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...these morality scripts that Peter Lorre was given to work on. He plays harmless immigrant who gets face burned in rooming house fire; turns brilliant criminal; falls in love with blind girl; gracefully reforms; gets double crossed and winds up hero. Lorre makes the best out of a second rate picture. But oh, for the days when movies had to be barred to children under twelve...
...simple pleasures that make one's life livable no matter how black the times, such as cigarettes, an occasional movie, a luscious chocolate milk with ice cream in any House but Adams, a bedtime story over the Crimson Network by A Member of the History Department. Among these harmless and ever-so-precious diversion might also be numbered leafing through the latest issue of Esquire, with its luxurious layout, its smooth ads and smoother women-especially since the Petty girl has returned. But simultaneously with the return of this lovely creature came a decree by the Boston police banning...
...utility financiers have focused their fears on its Section u, the so-called "death sentence." Question was just how literally this section would force "scatterated" holding companies to break up and reintegrate their properties. The Government postponed the issue by making its first court fight on a harmless clause. Then SEC postponed the integration problem, began asking the companies to submit plans only last year. Most of the plans submitted chose to interpret Section 11 the easiest way. Last week SEC published the first Section 11 blueprint of its own. United Gas Improvement Co., whose system it was designed...
Traditionally, divas are prey to harmless superstitions. Lily Pons, born with a caul on a Friday the 13th, counts 13 her lucky number. She asks for room 1313 in hotels, buys souvenirs (like South American birds) by the baker's dozen; her house in Silvermine, Conn. bears the street number 13. So, by her and Kosty's account, she held out for 13 proposals of marriage, then straightway accepted. They were married in June...
Like sweat and urine, saliva contains urea, a nitrogen compound. Dr. Stephan found that two groups of antagonistic bacteria flourish in saliva: 1) the destructive lactobacilli; 2) harmless germs of the staphylococcus family. By brewing an enzyme called urease. the staphylococci split up urea in the saliva into an ammonium compound, which neutralizes the erosive acid. Dr. Stephan's conclusion: teeth may decay when the saliva does not contain enough urea, or when the staphylococci are sluggish...