Word: heart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loyal Wells Fargo hero, Joel McCrea does his facile best to cement together these episodic bricks. In the love scenes he has no trouble putting heart into it, since in real life Frances Dee is Mrs. Joel McCrea. In general Wells Fargo is ably cast, and the production & settings are convincingly accurate. Most plausible period scene: gangling Bob Burns, as an ingratiating Leatherstocking of the plains, conversing endlessly with his laconic Indian companion, Pawnee, whose total vocabulary...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), an old-fashioned Western, elaborately cast, expensively produced, neither better nor worse than scores like it, has the speed, dusty swagger, standardized hokum of the standardized Western. Its dullness is often redeemed by Wallace Beery's loutish homicidal cuteness as the bad man with a heart of gold...
...schizophrenia. Last week Dr. Walter L. Bruetsch of Indiana University Medical School reported another schizophrenic link -this time to rheumatic infection of the brain. Autopsying 84 schizophrenic patients who died at Central State Hospital in Indianapolis, Dr. Bruetsch found that one in twelve had had rheumatic infections of the heart which also involved the brain, which showed inflammation and cellular deterioration...
...Christmas Day a few bottles of wine belonging to Graziano Taite of Jersey City disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Graziano got very angry, and in the resultant brawl a giant Negro called "Smiling Joe" Thomas was stabbed in the heart. Smiling Joe, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, was rushed to a hospital at Kearny, N. J., where doctors cut through his chest wall, opened the pericardium or heart envelope so that the heart lay visibly beating before their eyes, and delicately extracted a three-inch piece of broken knife blade. They took care...
...Modern heart surgery was given its impetus during the World War, when it was frequently a case of operate or see the patient die anyway. It is more successful nowadays, but the patient must have absolute rest until the stitches are absorbed and the tissue heals. Until then, any exertion may burst the seam, loosing a fatal spout of blood from the heart. Therefore Joe's nurse, wanting to leave the room for a moment, warned him not to move while she was gone. That was two days after Christmas...