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What with all the mutinies, floggings, knife duels, fist fights and shootings, most of the cast gets killed off, the villains get their due, and strong-jawed Ireland gets both the treasure and Yvonne. With its excess of haphazard and murkily motivated action, Hurricane Smith is likely to leave the moviegoer at sea most of the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

Unlike the old stereotype of the surgeon whose one aim was to wield the knife, Dr. Moore (who specializes in abdominal surgery) and the dozens of like-minded colleagues who dominated the surgeons' meeting last week will never use it if they think it can be avoided. And, except in emergency, they will never use it without careful consultation with the patient's physician, an interview with the patient himself, and a full-team study of the results of many laboratory tests made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery, New Style | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

Sharp Answer. In Bridgeport, Conn., James Augustus. 29. taken to the hospital with cuts on his left hand, right arm and chest, told police that his wife took after him with a kitchen knife when he asked, at bedtime: "Why don't we have clean sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...himself, he lashes the enormous dead fish to the side-it is two feet longer than the skiff-and heads for home. Then come the hijacking sharks. At first the old man kills them as they come in to attack his catch; then, his harpoon lost in one, his knife broken off in another, he gives in to the inevitable. What he brings in before dawn is a stripped skeleton, 18 feet long, which astonishes all who see it when day breaks. Wearily the old man asks himself what beat him out there. He answers himself aloud: "Nothing, I went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clean & Straight | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...lumberman, D. E. Chipps, got off scot-free when he called it "self-defense." Constantly at odds with the Southern Baptists, he organized some 3,000 churches into his own Fundamentalist fellowship, urged his followers to "use the broad axe of John the Baptist, not a little pearl-handled knife, on worldly card playing, dancing, and hell raising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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