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...First awarded six years ago,The Redbook-Dodd, Mead Prize has yet to be won by a man. Some prizewinners: Elizabeth Seifert (Young Doctor Galahad, 1938); Harlow Estes (Hildreth, 1940); Ellen Proctor (Turning Leaves...
...amiable married couple, the Proctors, who invite the invalid to their home come under the first category. Both parts are weak, particularly when it comes to registering emotion. This is especially true of Mrs. Proctor, portrayed by City Lewis. She loses and regains her husband in a rather blase manner, as if she knows that everything is going to turn out all right eventually and does not feel in worth worrying about too much. Their big reuniting clinch is quite casual...
...over-acting division is amply filled by one little girl, Lee Proctor, portrayed by Patsy Malany, and one sexy model, portrayed by Pearl Pollock. The former whines too much, while the latter shouts too much and talks too fast...
...young boy in one rural town recently died of acute appendicitis for lack of a doctor to diagnose his case. When Dr. Harry Leslie Frost of Pittsford died, he left thousands of patients in the town and surrounding mountains without medical care. The young physician in nearby Proctor, who is trying to cope with Dr. Frost's practice as well as his own, now has between 6,000 and 7,000 people on his list. TIME'S correspondent explained that no doctors have come out of retirement to help the situation "because in Vermont most doctors...
Undergraduates and University Hall alike, then, can no longer regard disciplinary probation as the badge of a collegiate gentleman or a red flag to be liberally waved. The Dean's office must find some substitute as a warning to delinquent reservists; an intermediate step between the proctor's reproach and expulsion must be found. And on the other hand undergraduates must understand that University rules cannot be relaxed because military standards are rigid. The fact that the consequences of probation are often severe is no reason for its application to be abandoned. Abuse can be avoided only if both Deans...