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Preoccupation. In Bath, England, Joane Rittner, caught driving without a license, wrote to the court to explain that she neglected to renew her old one, "owing to the following duties: nursing an invalid son and a daughter, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, queuing, and also grappling with ration books, children's emergency cards, priority milk cards, bread units, laundry, chimney sweeps, window cleaners, all preliminary arrangements prior to moving to a new house, moving to new house, and all necessary preparations for the birth of my fourth child next month...
...last week Circuit Court Judge John Albert Matthewman dismissed the charges. The disloyalty provisions of the act were invalid, he decided, since they encroached on the prerogative of the U.S. Congress. It was "fundamentally true" that the right of free speech is subject to the "proper exercise of police power," but only when there is "clear and present danger" of a breach of the peace...
Monsieur Verdoux (United Artists), Charles Spencer Chaplin's first film since The Great Dictator (1940), is the story of a middle-aged French bank clerk who loses his job during a depression. Tenderly devoted to his invalid wife, his little boy, and their security, and disastrously ill-equipped to fend for them in a prolapsed economy, he nevertheless manages to set up in business for himself. The business: murder...
...life worth living after such a drastic operation? Dr. Brunschwig, taking issue with many doctors, answers an emphatic yes. At worst (if the patient survives), such surgery relieves suffering; at best, it may restore a hopeless, lingering invalid to useful work and a nearly normal life...
...most effective treatment is complete rest. But doctors frown on the old idea that an R.F. patient must be treated as a permanent invalid...