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...York City's Mayor LaGuardia, precipitated the loudest Manhattan art squabble since Frederick MacMonnies' famed statue of Civic Virtue ("the Fat Boy") was exiled to a suburban square. The mayor referred to a slab-limbed plaster aviator, titled Wings for Victory, by Sculptor Thomas Lo Medico (see cut). Winner of a $1,000 prize in an Artists for Victory Inc. competition, the aviator, in a 24-ft. copy, was to have towered over the Fifth Avenue plaza before Manhattan's Public Library. Gloomed Sculptor Lo Medico: "We sculptors have to know about carpentry, and mathematics, and modeling...
Died. Dr. John Richard Brinkley, 56, Kansas' goat-bearded "goat-gland" medico-politico; of heart disease; in San Antonio. He exploited the desire of age for youth's potency, peddling a gland emulsion and grafting goat glands at his "rejuvenation clinic" in Milford, Kans. In his heyday he had three yachts, several raudy limousines, decorated himself with diamonds, employed 50 secretaries, took in a reputed $1,000,000 a year. He sold prescriptions over the air from his own radio station, broadcast diagnoses, threw in a little preaching. After Kansas revoked his license to practice...
Prue Hathaway (Joan Fontaine), upper-class daughter of a renowned English medico (Philip Merivale), never does answer that one, except to ask her beloved deserter to trust his heart, not his head. But she manages to straighten him out and point his nose toward battle once again with the reasonable admonition: "Whatever does happen, let us decide it, not the enemy...
...A.T.O.P., for reasons unknown, and contained the powerful drugs chloral hydrate, bromides, digitalis. After drinking this potion (which often made them giddy, set them a-warbling), patients proceeded in line to "treatment" by Dr. Cowles. New patients were examined and interviewed by two of Dr. Cowles's non-medico assistants. Placing one hand against the patient's stomach, the examiner grasped the bridge of the patient's nose with the knuckles of the first and second fingers of his other hand. Then he said: "Relax your mind. Relax your body. Now you're feeling better." After...
...likable good-time-Charlie (Ronald Reagan). Denounced by his distraught daughter (Nancy Coleman), he offers her a choice of silence or confinement in the insane asylum. Brave Randy Monaghan (Ann Sheridan), shanty Irish and desirable, marries her legless sweetheart and cables Parris to come home. The young medico returns, full of his new knowledge, to find that the ills of Kings Row are still beyond his scope...