Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beautiful People has a boozy, poetical father (Curtis Cooksey) living with an adolescent son and daughter in a decaying mansion on a San Francisco hill. They are supported by a monthly pension check mistakenly addressed tor a dead man. The daughter (Betsy Blair) tends the mice in the house and believes it is they who sometimes spell out her name in flowers on the floor (actually it is just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York...
...Living Treasure Sanderson describes his little lizards and mice, not only with words but with his own drawings, which are artistic works of science. His interest in ecology-the study of the relation, always complex, between each animal and its environment-makes his book not merely a description of loathly and lovely beastlings from Jamaica and Yucatan but a picture of a darker and grander organism of which they are parts...
...actual acting on the part of the Hollywood female. This time it's quite refreshing to see a bit of actual acting on the part of the Hollywood female. This time it's Betty Field, who will be remembered for her work in "Of Mice and Men," a consummate performance which gave evidence of a new set of acting standards in the movies...
...These substances," said Dr. Holmes last week, "can be made available in quantity for the use of the medical profession. Already a dozen top-flight workers in medical research are cooperating in tests with mice, rabbits, cats, dogs and people. Preliminary work with rabbits showed a definite influence on formation of white cells...
...death rate of their animals was sliced to a fraction, in some cases disappeared. For example, arsenic, which killed 65% of the rats, killed only 15% when it was given with the detoxicants; a dose of sulfathiazole that would ordinarily have killed 40% of a large group of mice killed none. At the same time, the mixture seemed to strengthen the curative powers of sulfa drugs...