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...botella especial-the special bottle tucked away under the bar. After the bartender had dealt him a single snort, the dying man arose from his litter and walked away. He had drunk pisco ^from a rough, clear glass bottle in which was coiled, eyes open, a green garter snake...
...promptly announced one of its 1948 "achievement" awards for British-born Actress Madeleine Carroll, for "combining excellence in her chosen career with continuing service to humanity." Other winners: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt ("Woman of the Year"), 88-year-old self-taught Painter "Grandma" Moses, and Novelist Mary Jane Ward (The Snake...
...attendants, the National Mental Health Foundation last year began naming a "Psychiatric Aide of the Year." This week the 1948 award ($500 and a citation) went to Milwaukee's Brand. Chief reason why he was picked by a board of judges that included Author Mary Jane Ward (The Snake Pit): he has stopped using "restraint" (hospital lingo for straitjackets, "camisoles," belts, wristcuffs, etc.). In his ward, Brand has been trying kindness and reasonableness instead...
...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...
Producer Babb, sparkplug of this unusual moviemaking team, pushes Mom and Dad as if it were snake oil. The film is shown only to unmixed audiences after a town has been saturated with a ballyhoo campaign that leaves no one but the livestock unaware of the chance to learn the facts of life. Each of the 16 prints of the film now touring the U.S. has its own advance man, plus a lecturer and two "nurses." The so-called nurses revive spectators who faint during the bolder medical sequences. During intermission, after the lecturer's spiel, they help...