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...Fight for Life is a grueling picture to watch. Possibly women should not see it at all. Pare Lorentz made it from Paul de Kruif's book, The Fight for Life. In The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River, Lorentz showed the effects of human waste and abuse on U. S. soil, forest and water resources. In The Fight for Life he shows the human waste caused by eclampsia, infection, hemorrhage-the three great killers of women in childbirth. Because childbirth kills oftenest where poverty is greatest, The Fight for Life was shot in a slum clinic...
Before writing the earlier novel, Lewis spent months in the company of Dr. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters) learning to respect the selflessness of medical science, to see human weakness and social bigotry through the struggles of its dedicated professionals. Background for Lewis' new novel is the author's five-year experience with the professional theatre, first as a collaborator (Jayhawker and It Can't Happen Here), later as an actor-playwright (Angela Is Twenty-Two), member of Equity and player in the summer theatre and on the road. What Lewis has found to respect this time...
...left unscathed by a series of pointed questions. Matador of this intellectual bull session is sharp-witted Clifton Fadiman, book reviewer for The New Yorker. Permanent bulls have been Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and the New York Times'?, amazingly broadly informed Sportswriter John Kieran. Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase, Marc Connelly, John Gunther, Alice Duer Miller have been among the weekly panel of guests. Matador Fadiman's banderillas are trick questions selected from some 60.000 sent in every week by listeners (reversing the usual procedure of experts questioning audience...
...Flesh wounds are frequently inflicted. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters') did not know that "rubeola" means measles. Economist Stuart Chase did not know that ''multiple shops" is British for chain stores. F.P.A. attributed some of his own verses to Dorothy Parker...
...making gifts of broadcasting rights to F.T.R.D., authors have been equally generous. James Truslow Adams gave them his The Epic of America for an MBS series, Mary Roberts Rinehart her Tish stories for CBS broadcasting. Most lavish gift of all came from Medical Crusader Paul de Kruif, who has turned over his radio rights to Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters, Men Against Death, Why Keep Them Alive, The Fight for Life. Dramatization of all these books in order went into production this week, will be a CBS coast-to-coaster Thursday evenings at 8 beginning June 30. NBC's projected...