Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shot in glorious black and white, "Fort Apache" introduces John Agar as a brash young 2nd Lt with a lantern jaw and a gay twinkle in his blue, blue eyes. He provides the love interest and very little else. His opposite, Shirley Temple, is now a Woman, let it be announced. Her acting is competent and mature, if a trifle too cute. Fonda plays the stiff-backed, knuckle-headed Colonel skillfully, but even so experienced an actor as he cannot carry this trite and sloppy picture...
...institute $12,000, and given until the next week to pay. Ghadiali appealed, brought in 112 patients who claimed they felt better. The Government countered with grimmer testimony: a son testified that his father, a diabetic, died after three weeks' treatment; the husband of a woman with tuberculosis said his wife lost 40 pounds, then died; a woman said her son died before her eyes while she was giving him the lights treatment...
...lowered the rate to 9% in a smaller series of cases. Some of the blocking reported by other doctors is due, he thinks, to temporary spasms caused by their own instruments. Spasms caused by emotions may cause blocking in other cases. He suggests: "Is it not probable that a woman may deprive herself of the conception she desires because of the very strength of her desire, or the fear...
...First. The Federal Communications Commission prepared to receive its first woman member: blonde, 43-year-old Frieda B. Hennock, a Manhattan corporation lawyer, who was named last week by President Truman -to succeed Commissioner Clifford J. Durr, who resigned. (She still has to be confirmed by the Senate.) Polish-born, Bronx-bred Miss Hennock was the youngest woman (21) ever admitted to the New York bar. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, she hopes to represent the women who "comprise radio's biggest audience...
Miss Durbin, prettily as she sings, still seems more like a canary than a woman; and by & large this production, like the musical comedy from which it is derived, is at best merely the least unpleasant way of surviving a class in civics...