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...Poindexter's lines From The Sanatorium seem to be a beautiful sentence dropped at random in the middle of the Advocate. But then there is no super-abundance of beauty, even verbal beauty, in the Advocate, or elsewhere...
...major consideration. To double-check his findings, Dr. Kissen studied patients whose TB, once fully controlled, had flared up again. Among these, he found 60% whose personality and history fitted the pattern. The prevalence of the pattern set Dr. Kissen to wondering: Since removal of patients to a sanatorium for treatment entails breaking love links, especially for children, is it a good idea to move so many of them? If at all possible, he suggests, patients should be treated at home under proper safeguards...
...blonde third wife, Cinemactress Dolores Costello, and daughter of oldtime Broadway and Hollywood idol Maurice Costello; of pneumonia, five days after she was committed to the Patton State Hospital for narcotics addiction (destitute and ailing, she had spent much of her time since 1938 in a tuberculosis sanatorium and an actors' home); in Norwalk, Calif...
Hothouse Flush. He takes to visiting her at the sanatorium, generously pays for her treatment and embarks on projects to prepare her for the outside world she must face when she is cured. He teaches her French because her only knack seems to be a gift for languages, brings her albums of great paintings, tries to broaden her knowledge of the world. But Aladar is the pupil, not Lalla. He meets two of her fellow patients-strangely charming Franciska, gently maternal Kati. He dotes on the three girls like a fond parent, becomes absorbed in the hothouse flush...
International Society. Hungarian-born Author Boros, fortyish, who during 20 years of life in Britain has admirably mastered the English language, herself spent years in TB sanatoriums. Says she: "Those sanatoriums just don't exist any longer. With all the antibiotics, the illness has lost its peculiar quality. TBs used to be a kind of international society. It was that world of their own that I wanted to write about." The result is no Magic Mountain, but it is brilliant in its way. There has seldom been so sensual a novel written with so little eroticism or with...