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...best ways to stir up a Congressman is to reject or to cut the appropriations he wants. In this session of Congress no one has refused and cut more than crusty old (76) Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Last week the House cut back at Missourian Cannon...
...custom decrees that freshmen Congressmen during their first months in office are better seen than heard. Neophyte British M.P.s, on the other hand, are expected to create something of a stir when they rise to make their maiden speech in Parliament. Last week 34-year-old Ron Ledger, newly elected Labor Member for Romford, devoted his maiden speech to a plea for more free nurseries. To give his argument force, he told the story of a certain renegade father and of a mother, pregnant and destitute, who was forced to abandon her three children to the care of an orphanage...
...Blend three dashes Benedictine, three dashes grenadine, one-third orange juice, two-thirds dry gin. Stir well in ice, strain, serve in tin cup and stay away from organ-grinders...
...without causing many cancers of the more exposed larynx. Yet the death rate from larynx cancer has not gone up in step with that from lung cancer. This question was tackled by Epidemiologist Ernest L. Wynder, of Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, who created a stir 17 months ago when he produced cancers consistently on the backs of mice by using tobacco tar. Said Researcher Wynder: larynx cancer has become commoner, but it has not become a commoner cause of death. Reason: earlier detection and therefore more effective surgery, possible with easy-to-get-at larynx...
...despite the camera tricks, engulfing shadows, dizzying vistas of colonnades and architectural arabesques, the film moves forward with a pulse-quickening stir and bustle. As the jealous Moor, Welles captures the falcon-look of a Kabyle from the Atlas Mountains; Michael McLiammoir plays a foul-fiend of an lago with reptilian intensity; and Suzanne Clothier as Desdemona, though not quite entrancing enough to "sing the savageness out of a bear," wins compassion as she is bewilderingly overwhelmed by her mate and fate...