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...predict overwhelming success for Dr. Mack's prescription for thumb-suckers [TIME, July 9]. The picture of the hay rake in the child's mouth was so terrifying to my 3½-year-old daughter that she hasn't had her thumb in her mouth since...
...doesn't Dentist Mack try to spend a few nights with a hay rake attached to his own teeth to find out how the children feel when they accidentally brush their tongues against that torture contraption while sleeping...
London was staging a show of Hogarths last week that would have pleased the old 18th Century painter-engraver pink. Instead of featuring the satiric, story-telling picture series (Harlot's Progress, Rake's Progress, Marriage a la Mode, etc.) which made him famous in his lifetime, the show was crammed with the portraits of prominent folk and the sprawling historical canvases which Hogarth himself considered his finest and most important work...
Janet Leigh is engaging as the Southern belle who takes up with a courtly rake in a Manhattan speakeasy. Actor Pinza, 59, whose close-up profile occasionally resembles Douglas Mac Arthur's, carries off his role with vigorous charm, and takes full advantage of his cues for a few operatic bits (the best: Song of the Golden Calf, from Faust), and two old popular tunes (I'll See You in My Dreams, Everything I Have Is Yours). If his style is a shade heavy for deft comedy, it is certainly no heavier than the script...
Only once did the Amethyst get into dangerously shallow water. Below the boom, she met a patrol boat; Kerans decided to speed by as close as possible, thus give the smaller enemy craft a minimum chance to rake his decks. The Amethyst scraped by with a bare 18 inches to spare. Then a junk without lights loomed up ahead and was sliced in two. Then the biggest guns of all, at Woosung, were safely passed, and the Amethyst was in the clear. In the wide mouth of the Yangtse, she met H.M.S. Concord and the sweaty, half-starved crew...