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...talking about a little vine-covered 'dobe on Prairie Dog Creek, but Jane won't hear of such "dirty, mangy, sod-bustin' livin'." She shoots straight: "Ah dream BIG." Clark fires back: "Ah dream SMAWWLLL." She takes up her quilt and walks. Enter the villain (Robert Ryan), who also dreams big. Ryan offers Jane the territory of Montana if she will let him assume her burden of quilt. She agrees, and he dresses her up like a real front-tier belle, but even as she is sprayed with Paris perfume, Jane cannot forget that able Gable...
LIBERATED FRANCE, by Catherine Gavin (292 pp.; St. Martin's; $5), is a concise, highly readable history (1944-53) in which De Gaulle is often the villain, France herself always the heroine. Able Scottish Historian Gavin, who has a sharp gift of phrase and a keen eye for the human touch, can marshal statistics and evoke a spring mood in Paris with equal grace...
...plot itself is an almost over-simplified version of the boy-meets-girl story. Although a full blooded villain might have given the book an added dash of interest, it is a charming treatment of gentle ruffians, and, fittingly enough, gives the melodies the dominant role. "All Kinds of People," "Sweet Thursday," "All At Once You Love Her," and "The Man I Used To Be" are all in the best Rogers and Hammerstein tradition. Some of the catchy tunes include "The Tide Pool," "A Lopsided Bus" and "The Party That We're Gonna Have Tomorrow Night...
...Question of Cholesterol. The hottest of all arguments is over cholesterol. For the last decade or so, some researchers have been casting this fatty alcohol as the villain. It is the predominant substance found in the plaques and patches that form on the roughened inner wall (intima) of the artery, and the amount circulating in the blood is in some rough proportion to the fats in the diet. So it is temptingly simple to draw the conclusion that the dietary fat starts the trouble and the cholesterol finishes it when it has built up deposits-which may also become calcified...
...harm. But something else clings to their debris. According to the University of California's Dr. Henry Moon and Dr. James Rinehart, this is a sugar protein. Only after that, they say, does the cholesterol appear. And they do not believe that the sugar protein is the original villain: that, the San Francisco researchers contend, is a deficiency of vitamin B 6 (found in liver and egg yolk...