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Last week, a new medical textbook was published which put the patient's pains first. If a new generation of doctors adopts its humane attitude, even in part, many a patient of the future will be spared the numb feeling that his doctor is showing him less warmth and sympathetic understanding than a conscientious mechanic would give to the carburetor...
...Gwenn's superb acting, is to give the picture's closing episodes the winning quality of Miracle on 34th Street. Like Miracle, in which Actor Gwenn played a put-upon Santa Claus, Mister 880 works up the surefire comic-sentimental appeal of pompous authority melting in the warmth of an ingenuous little man of good will...
Sergei Prokofiev once composed a charming piece for children called Peter and the Wolf (TIME, Aug. 21). But that was a long time ago (1936). Home in Russia again after living in the U.S. and France, he was then still basking in the warmth of a hero's welcome. Since then many things have happened to Sergei Prokofiev. The hero's welcome wore out. Two years ago, he was sharply reprimanded for "bourgeois decadence." He meekly promised to mend his ways...
When Paulette wandered off the road to the quiet hamlet of Saint-Faix, she was given shelter by a peasant family. They made a home for her, but they could not understand how much she needed warmth and reassurance. Only Michel, the youngest in the family, understood her fierce affection for dead little animals. It was he who suggested their secret game. They buried dead moles, rats and lizards beneath improvised crosses, a ceremony which somehow consoled Paulette. To get more crosses, they began raiding the cemetery and the church. With covetous eyes, they examined the crosses, trying to decide...
Sonata No. 4, Op. 102 No. 1 (Artur Schnabel, pianist; Pierre Fournier, cellist; Victor, 4 sides 45 r.p.m.). This sober and somber sonata anticipates-but ranks with-the last great quartets. Schnabel's playing, as always, has wisdom and warmth; French Cellist Fournier can not quite match the playing of Pablo Casals in an earlier record. Performance and recording: excellent...