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Sign or Starve? Many doctors were unhappy about it. Last February the Brit ish Medical Association had voted 10 to 1 (TIME, March 1) against cooperating with the Act. But 21,341 out of 23,000 general practitioners had eventually signed up. To ease their pain, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan had held out a placebo: his government had no plans to make the doctors full-time civil servants. They would get a "base pay" of about $3.50 a year for each patient on their books. Estimated top income, with all extras, like obstetrics : $20,000. Estimated income...
Eileen is not quite sure how old she is, because her illiterate miner father never registered her birth. She guesses that she is mid-thirty-ish, celebrates her birthday on Nov. 12 "for no reason at all-just as an excuse for presents and a quiet party...
Holiday Camp (British). Grand Hotel-ish comedy drama, featuring Flora Robson. Nothing exceptional, but nice easy entertainment...
...about all the job requires. But whoever makes up the cast really is a nonessential, for the players seem to have been selected more for physical appearance than for any particular modieum of talent, George Sanders as Charles II displays the one lone semblance of real acting. DeMille-ish mob scenes, thousands of costly costumes, and the inevitable Technicolor lend a kind of facade of quality to something that is basically sham, but the too-thin vencer cannot completely hide a story that in essence is little but a collection of vicarious sexual experiences tacked...
...Washington, U.S. and British experts were discussing ways & means of boosting Ruhr coal production. The Brit ish seemed willing to defer, in the interest of immediate full production, their plan to socialize the Ruhr. In return they wanted a reduction in their share of the occupation bill. Ruhr production cannot be boosted until the Ruhr gets more food, housing, mining equipment, freight cars and locomotives. The British, who have spent 11% of their U.S. loan on German occupation costs, want a better deal than the 50-50 agreement with the U.S. on the cost of running western Germany...