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...song & dance as Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Dinah Shore, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan and Alexis Smith, who know their way around in this sort of work, help out. Veteran comics S. Z. Sakall and Edward Everett Horton help still more. But the picture is most amusing as a sort of glorified Amateur Night...
...story requires Mr. Cantor to portray himself as a Pandora's box of stale jokes, an egomaniac with whom Messrs. Horton & Sakall traffic only because he owns Dinah Shore, who is essential to a Monster Benefit they want to stage. Their problem: to pull for the Shore without shipping too much Cantor. They fail, and Mr. Cantor, taking charge, develops such old-fashioned ideas for the show as that of dressing the chorus-girls as boiled potatoes and having them dive into a tank of sour cream...
...Acute diarrhea kills thousands of babies yearly. Doctors do not know its cause or cure. But Drs. Allan H. Twyman and George R. Horton of Indianapolis reported in the Journal of the A.M.A. last week that they had obtained hopeful results on newborn infants with succinylsulfathiazole, a sulfa drug used in some other digestive infections. Of eleven babies treated, only two died (the doctors think those two might have been cured with larger doses). Of eleven untreated babies, four died and the others were sick twice as long as the sulfa-treated ones...
...Spencer. On the ship's bulletin board appeared a message from the Commander in Chief of the Western Approaches, Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton, R.N., addressed to the officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer...
...Office of War Information that Elmer took over was the dizziest of all Washington holding companies. It was a merger of four agencies which had been getting on everybody's nerves: Archibald MacLeish's Office of Facts & Figures, Lowell Mellett's Office of Government Reports, Robert Horton's information service for the Office of Emergency Management, part of Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan's Office of Coordinator of Information...