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...Whirlpool (20th Century-Fox). "WARNING!" cry the ads for this picture. "If you are easily hypnotized, don't see it alone." The copywriter must have confused the hypnotic with the soporific. As the latest case history in five-reel psychiatry, with some Mesmer thrown in, the movie is a Freudian slip...
Many of his business admirers apparently think so too. Since the announcement last fall of the Gravity Research Foundation, letters have flooded in. Many came from cranks-e.g., one man described a "whirlpool of force" in Oregon where trees and people all lean toward the magnetic north. But inquiries came from impressed businessmen too. A leading shoe manufacturer offered Babson $100,000 for "something that can be put into the sole of a shoe to insulate against gravity." Floor-covering manufacturers showed a lively interest in the possibility of "flying" carpets...
When Joseph Stalin "replied" to a newspaperman's questionnaire late last month, he plunged the Western world into a whirlpool of violent controversy. Was Stalin's offer to meet President Truman behind the "iron curtain" made in good faith?--or was it only another sly twist in the Soviet propaganda campaign to split the Western defenses? The United States government has heavily inclined to the latter view and has consequently been excoriated or misunderstood by many people who sincerely believe that Stalin meant just exactly what he said...
Sumner Welles, 56, onetime Under Secretary of State, who almost died after collapsing and lying for some eight hours in a frosty field last Christmas night, was about ready to leave the hospital. Special treatment for severe frostbite (cold packs, whirlpool baths, penicillin shots, drugs) had saved his frozen toes and fingers from amputation...
...Force base at Bluie West One.* Supplies were parachuted down and a B-17 was ordered in from Goose Bay, Labrador to pick up the seven uninjured crewmen. But from then on Greenland's treacherous flying weather began sucking in rescue aircraft and men like a snow-whipped whirlpool...