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...never be able to live his life. He drowns. Then dramatically in The Naked Night, one of Bergman's most powerful films, the hero after a moral and physical ordeal kills a bear. One Jungian analyst, after seeing the film, pointed out that the bear is the traditional totem of the evil mother in myths and fairy tales...
...annually need admission to Los Angeles' general hospitals for dentistry, though only 5,000 actually go in. With the city's population zooming, general-hospital beds are getting scarcer. Besides, most of its general hospitals dislike the cavity trade, and dentists are low men on the medical totem pole, with no admission priviliges. Patients who need hospitalization for major dentistry are listed as: the bedridden, the mentally retarded, many psychiatric patients, business and professional men who want to save time by having a lot of work done at once, and any patients needing general anesthesia...
Blue-Eyed Hindu. Shirley MacLaine's success can be measured in more material terms. Her latest movie, Ask Any Girl (TIME, June 1), is climbing to the top of the box office totem pole largely because of her enchanting performance in a second-rate story. For her next picture, Can-Can, she will get $250,000, and she has just concluded another $250,000 deal with NBC for 15 TV specials-not bad for a girl who only a few years ago was a Broadway understudy at $110 a week...
...help with studies, he said frankly, they could at least buy dictionaries and give children a place to work. "Integration didn't put us in too good a light," he told the parents over and over. "School is important business. We have been low man on the totem pole, and too satisfied with...
...made up the only Allied air force in being in a critical battleground. Yet even after he had been put in command of a U.S. air force of his own and had won the rank of general, he was still treated as a crackpot, remained low man on the totem pole when it came to supplies. He was virtually pushed into retirement days before war ended and did not even get the courtesy of space on the battleship Missouri when the Japanese surrendered...