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...would become a surgeon should join the army and follow it," said Hippocrates. In Victories of Army Medicine (Lippincott; $3), published last week, Colonel Edgar Erskine Hume shows that surgery has been only one great branch of U.S. Army healing. His book is the first general history of U.S. Army Medicine...
...compounded by its setting: an exquisitely commonplace family in a familiar small California town. Mama (Patricia Collinge) is a fluttery hen whose family has become too much for her. The kids have begun to read novels and spout homilies to their parents. Papa (Henry Travers) and his crony (Hume Cronyn) are detective-story fans who get together every night after supper to trade amiable schemes for murdering each other. And daughter (Teresa Wright) is at the moonstruck age when she cannot bear the family's dullness a moment longer...
Involved in a more or less histrionic way are, among others, Fay Wray and Betty Furness, a couple of fugitives from the Hollywood quickie lots who don't have too much to do, but look decorative. Hume Cronyn, who has gotten good notices in rather poor plays in the last few years, plays the politically ambitious D.A. and comes out pretty well trying to make a highly exaggerated role bearable through the whole evening. It might also be appropriate to mention in passing that one of the co-authors is the husband of Gloria Stuart...
...three elementary courses Phil. A is far and away the best. It is also the hardest, reading the works of a selected group of philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, etc.) The course is well organized, and Demos is an interesting lecturer. Not only does this course give non-concentrators a sound ground-work in philosophy, but it is excellent for concentrators, because the main stress of their divisionals will be upon individual...
...Williams on Hume, in Phil. 14c, the lectures are good and the course well organized. Williams is popular, and is regarded as one of the up and coming men of the department, and a sound knowledge of Hume is desirable for divisionals