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Arthur himself is a dreary specimen, but what happens to him is often fascinating. Novelist Bazin writes with impressive authority about the treatment of patients, the warm baths in which they are lulled, the prolonged torpor and occasional flights of excitement in which they subsist, the subtle divisions of status that arise among them, as if in mocking duplicate of the outer world...
...this presidential year the Pennsylvania specimen under closest study is John Fine. To understand him it is necessary to recall the fabulous political background from which he comes. The ghosts of long-dead leaders still stalk Pennsylvania politics. Alignments formed long ago still operate, and the forces that pull and tug at John Fine today were pulling and tugging at John Fine's predecessors when Bob Taft's father was in the White House and Dwight Eisenhower was a youngster in Abilene...
...Cinemactor Robert Preston is fine as the just short of half-witted onetime halfback. But what raises the play a full notch or more is its infectious nonsense. It sufficiently portrays the male animal in relation to the female, but it exhibits him even more as a leading specimen in the cosmic...
...result is a picture of the specimen that is in full color, while to the ordinary microscope, human tissue is completely colorless. Amazing things have been seen with the new instrument. Cancerous cells, which have heretofore in many cases been impossible to distinguish from healthy tissue, have been seen on the screen as flaming red inflammations on the green background of normal tissue. These colors are produced by chemical reactions within the cells...
...view a specimen in the instrument, Miss Swaffield places it on the microscope stage and presses a button. A minute later she sees a full-color view of the object as it would look if her eyes were tuned in for the short ultraviolet rays...