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...campaign, the Bunny quintet climbed out of the league cellar. Kirkland, which sustained a 34 to 27 loss to Leverett, slid to the bottom rung of the court ladder. The teams were even at 16-all at the half-time intermission but the victors, paced by Bucky Thorn's ten points, moved ahead as the second period got under way and coasted...
Work was said to be progressing on the 2,400 foot standard guage cable railway on Thorn Mountain's steep slopes at Jackson. The owner hopes to have his railway, which will tap many new slopes on Thorn and Middle Mountains, operating sometime this month...
Last year, as president of the Colorado State Medical Society, Dr. Sudan was a troublesome thorn in A.M.A.'s conservative side. He hired a public-relations firm which had been fired by A.M.A. for making "radical" suggestions. Dr. Sudan adopted many of the suggestions for his official state program: e.g., posting "fair" fees in doctors' offices and pushing prepayment plans. Such steps, Dr. Sudan believes, would improve relations between the general practitioner and his patients. A.M.A. has not yet changed its stand; but now (perhaps on the principle of "If you can't lick 'em, join...
Henry Wallace as a dissenter, the thorn in the flesh of complacent conservatism, has been performing a function that is socially useful even if somewhat upsetting to his onetime associates in the Democratic Party. As a Presidential candidate, he has laid himself open to another kind of criticism. Even if his sincerity is beyond question, there may be some doubt that he has chosen the most politically expedient method of achieving his ends...
...faith in humanity, which many people may find hard to take, is personified agreeably in Barbara Bel Geddes, who is convincingly charming and pure in her film debut. The thorn in the side of Fonda and Bel Geddes's true love, velvet-smooth Vincent Price, complicates the plot by trying to seduce the girl and torture Fonda with an induced inferiority complex. For you see, he is but a working man, who little understands the complicated nature of woman. It takes a while, but Fonda finally realizes that the ladies are as simple as he had thought, and that everyone...