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...fast to be good. ¶ As the number of old people has increased, medicine was ready with a word: geriatrics, a branch of medicine dealing with the ailments of the aged. But geriatricians will be few & far between, says Temple University's Dr. Richard A. Kern. "No one will admit that he is old until long after that fact is obvious to everyone else . . . He who announces the limitation of his practice to geriatrics will probably starve, "† ¶ Three doctors at the Cleveland Clinic think they have found the connection between nervous tension and high blood pressure. They...
...across the screen twice before, in 1929 and 1936, but never with such a lavish hand at the helm. M-G-M poured $2,400,000 into the latest voyage, refitted the venerable Cotton Blossom with a bight profusion of crisply Technicolored costumes, sets and vistas. The memorable Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score (Ol' Man River, Make Believe, Why Do I Love You?) is as dependable a mainstay as ever. But never has Show Boat seemed so filled to the scuppers with corn...
...movie is hardly more fortunate in its casting. Kathryn Grayson and Howard (Annie Get Your Gun) Keel, playing Magnolia and Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill...
Almost with one voice, the Senate last week angrily had its say about allies who trade with Communists. Missouri's Senator James P. Kern thought he had a way to discourage them: "Not one gun, not one barrel of gasoline, not one ton of rubber has been withheld from Marshall Plan countries which were shipping [war] materials ... to Russia and her satellite nations." He wanted a law forbidding EGA to send raw materials or financial aid to any Marshall Plan nation which continues trafficking with Communist countries...
Yesterdays (Ezio Pinza; Victor). In fine voice, Opera Star Pinza does a rousing job on a fine old Kern standard...