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...Cure. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Mrs. Lucy Wireman, 30, denying that she tried to kill her husband, who was hospitalized with a severe case of arsenic poisoning, admitted to police that she had been spiking his beer with rat poison for four years but only "to cure him of the drinking habit...
...gallantry, in fact, is the false note. Zuckmayer and Käutner have mocked up a marvelous illusion of life in the Nazi ruling circles at the turning point of the war. The scene, as they paint it, is a seething roach nest of military puritans, rat-eyed party fanatics and servile chimney barons, of endless work, nonstop parties, public arrogance, private Angst, Germanic sentiment and rotting will, of spies, lies and a dirty, interminable fight for personal power. And through the scene but somehow above it, like let's-pretend Valkyries, wanders a tribe of strangely ambivalent German...
...defense of Hugh O'Neil, the great Earl of Tyrone, ends in an explanation of Elizabethan expansion as the result of a price squeeze on the gentlemen of England. There Totem and Taboo is tabooed, with anthropological reasons. Here some pellet-counters thrash out the merits of the rat and the hamster as laboratory animals. There the probable next moves of the Rubber Workers Union are mapped...
With the warmth and companionship of her husband, Crip, she is guarding two shine white eggs--the embodied hopes of the world's remaining 28 whooping cranes. But Josephine, oh Josephine, beware the avaricious owl and the rapacious rats who murdered your babe last year. Let your keepers continue their 24 hour guard, let them burn the floodlights brightly, and let them keep the ditch around your cage filled with rat poison...
...boss, one-man Groupthinker Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver, bubbled into activity again with a new pro-culture idea called Program Service, a high-class passel of TV shows that Weaver hopes to beam from stations in 15 "great bellwether markets." Aiming to operate above and beyond the ratings rat race. Pat Weaver, anxious to "enlighten and enrich," will soon start sending out signals to "all the mad scientists in the entertainment and information fields to start brewing their heady brews." Meanwhile, Quiz Whiz Charles Van Doren signed an exclusive five-year contract with NBC at a salary "close...