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While not so lively or lightly spun as its predecessor, Herself Surprised (TIME, Sept. 20), To Be a Pilgrim has a vibrant life. Together, the two novels form part of a first-rate trilogy covering 20th-century English manners & morals in a half-serious, half-picaresque vein; the last and best of the three, The Horse's Mouth, has yet to be published...
...case was reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Detroit Allergist George L. Waldbott. For 18 years Dr. Waldbott has been studying cases of fatal shock following shots of serums. The Detroit woman, he explains, was accidentally pierced in a vein (instead of a muscle) by the hypodermic needle. The penicillin was absorbed too rapidly into a system already sensitized to penicillin by previous injections...
...deaths in their own practice; and not everyone would recognize such a death as due to anaphylactic shock." His advice to physicians: check carefully to make sure the patient has not been sensitized to penicillin; if he has been, take extra care not to inject it into a vein...
Marquand says he was forced to keep his nose to the Satevepost grindstone for years to keep his head above the household bills. His wife urged him to try a different vein-advice which he followed later, if not at the time. "She would say, 'Why don't you write something nice for your Uncle Ellery on the Atlantic Monthly?' She didn't realize that my Uncle Ellery would have given me a nice silver inkwell, or a hundred dollars, and that wouldn't pay the bills...
Having thus stated its double-feature message, the film even contrives an ending in a happy, hopeful vein. At no point does it give its central anti-war theme the emotional contagion that the same message got in The Search or the Italian-made Shoeshine, both of which dealt movingly with war's impact on children by simply telling a straight story honestly...