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Malaria is not ordinarily much of a killer, but in Upper Egypt last week it was as lethal as the plague. Accepted estimate was that in two years it has caused about 86,000 deaths in Qena and Aswan provinces (pop. about 1,000,000), some 400 miles from Cairo. Other estimates run as high as 200,000. Whole villages have been wiped out and, as in plague times, bodies lie unburied in the streets. Only in India and China, where malaria's pernicious forms are common, are such epidemics prevalent...
...were not sure they could recognize it. Diagnosis is made by i) symptoms, 2) testing a patient's blood, 3) finding the malarialike Toxoplasma parasite in the tissues of a dead patient. In the U.S., toxoplasmosis is still a medical collectors' item-a lethal rarity...
...Miss Davis has a discreet affair with a naval officer ten years her junior. But he prefers Miss Hopkins' daughter, runs away with her, leaves Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins like a pair of dangling participants in a sentence of slow death. Georgia-born Miriam Hopkins achieves a lethal portrayal of a lint-brained, romantic, frantically egocentric mother. Bette Davis makes her two love affairs intelligent, sad, dignified. Vincent (The Hard Way) Sherman's direction of a careful cast turns a negligible play not so much into cinema as into good average theater...
Many a crash victim, said Captain Hass, has been picked up with a few broken bones and no obviously dangerous injury. Later he has sickened and died from internal damage of which his doctors were unaware. Lethal internal blows may also be dealt not by the impact of internal organs themselves, but by food in the stomach, urine in the bladder, blood in a chamber of a man's heart. Captain Hass said that if doctors had known of these crash effects in the past, many victims could have been diagnosed in time to save their lives by simple...
...finance the film. But the box-office response immediately vindicated Ed Golden's original hunch which he used in his sales talk with uninterested Hollywood: "Here's a picture that's got real exploitation value. It's got sterilization. It's got a lethal chamber. It's got kids. What more do you want...