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...which escape DDT campaigns? Four war-born drugs help their victims, the conference was told: 1) chloroquine, more active than quinine or atabrine, and much less toxic; 2) pentaquine, which has reduced the relapse rate in the vivax form of malaria from 98% to 25%; 3) iso-pentaquine, a variant of pentaquine, so far tried on only 100 cases; 4) Paludrine, which controls vivax malaria with a single dose...
...second half of the picture, Edgar Bergen and dummies, in Technicolor, tell a little girl (Luana Patten) a cartooned variant of the Jack & the Beanstalk story. Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy, after a first-rate sequence as starving peasants, are lifted into the sky by a magic plant. There they meet Willie the Giant, outwit him (no hard job), and rescue a captive heroine...
...Variant of the Hollywood term, "Boffo Terrif," big box-office smash...
Religion is not the "brotherhood of man." The Golden Rule is a necessary but not a sufficient description of man's religious duty. Although almost all the great religions prescribe some variant of the Golden Rule, none of them relies on it exclusively. In the four Gospels Jesus speaks several times about the brotherhood of man, but he speaks of the Fatherhood of God just three times as often. Without that Fatherhood, man's efforts to live by the light of altruism have always landed him in its dark opposite...
...Late George Apley (20th Century-Fox), as a J. P. Marquand novel, was a cleverly genteel variant on the water-drip torture. The story told, in deadpan style, of the gradual destructiveness of a whole mode of life. Like the play which was made from the novel, the movie sacrifices the subtleties of gradualism for dramatic frame and focus...