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...substance. She was the artist who supplied the burnish." Journalist Johnston's substance is the old story of the penniless youth who falls in love with the headman's daughter ("She has the eyes of a gazelle, he thought"), only to find that his suit is hopeless be cause she has been betrothed since child hood. To make matters worse, a tithe-collecting lama visits the valley and de mands a night with gazelle-eyed Veshti...
...days passed, the case seemed more & more hopeless; the hospital assumed that the baby must be dead. Then, last week, after 26 days, the police got a tip. It led them to a cheap Manhattan hotel; there they found their quarry, a wild-eyed, 25-year-old domestic named Evelyn Jane Jordan. Police believed the worst: there was no baby in her littered room. Taken away for questioning, the kidnaper stubbornly denied ever seeing...
...Drips, egotistical, and with false superiority," a freshman commented, while a thoughtful senior stated, "If you take a random assortment of dates, the larger percentage is pretty hopeless...
...Well, bully for Drs. [Duncan] Reid and [Mandel] Cohen for injecting a little common sense into all this "natural childbirth" farrago [TIME, March 13]. Britain's Dr. Grantly Dick Read and his cohorts have got women feeling that they're hopeless neurotics if they don't have their baby between the bean-rows and get back to the harvest in 15 minutes...
...ordeals, Director Jean Negulesco strings together a series of horrowing experiences, such as the massacre of a group of out-of-bounds captives, but fails to take sufficient note of the less dramatic, everyday hardships of prison camp life. Very seldom does one get a feeling of the hopeless monotony and emptiness which must have been as trying to the prisoners as the occasional brutalities...