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...delightful collection of bouncy silliness couched in florid melody. Mirella Freni and Nicolai Gedda reproduce their entrancing Metropolitan Opera performances of two seasons ago, and they are complemented by the astonishing bass of Renato Capecchi, who combines unbelievable agility with mahogany-like richness in the role of a quack selling a love potion...
...efforts to doctor Britain's faltering economy with doses of austerity, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has lately managed to look more like a quack dispensing dubious pills. Unemployment climbed to a 27-year peak of 559,000 last month, and that total is generally expected to reach 750,000 by winter. Industrial production has stagnated for nearly a year. Foreign-exchange earnings, the crucial source of support for the British pound, have risen, but at a disappointing rate. Under increasing critical attack both within and without his own Labor Party, Wilson last week called up a surprise reinforcement: himself...
Stagecoach. John Ford's pacemaking 1939 western pushed horse opera into the thoroughbred class, made a major star of John Wayne, and clinched an Academy Award for the late Thomas Mitchell, who gave a richly liquored-up performance as a thirsty, unshaven quack. In this ill-starred remake, Bing Crosby plays Mitchell's doctor role with more flippant humor, fewer prickly insights. Bing is good, but otherwise the movie suggests once more that Hollywood's twice-told tales seldom honor the past as much as they plunder...
...cause of lasting disability. They take a heavier toll of work days lost in industry than do accidents. Even so, total U.S. outlays for arthritis and rheumatism research come to little more than $15 million a year-as against $300 million poured down the drain in desperation for quack "remedies," ranging from diets to sitting in old uranium mines, from bee venom to honey and vinegar. The troubles are classified in four major groups...
Churchill could be a difficult patient. He was something of a hypochondriac, Moran says, "and he takes instinctively to a quack." Once, when Sir Winston was planning to join General Alexander's army in southern Italy, Moran demanded that he take along a bottle of mepacrine, an antimalarial drug. Churchill resisted, telephoned Buckingham Palace to see if King George had ever taken the stuff (he hadn't). Wrote Moran: "Winston is just incorrigible. He has only to press a bell to bring into the room the greatest malarial experts in the world; instead, he asks the King...