Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something new in movies. You're meant to identify yourself with a private detective through whose eyes you see the picture. If you have the misfortune to succeed, you'll wriggle when you hear yourself (Robert Montgomery) emitting hideous belly-laughs, tossing off smug wisecracks, and kissing a woman who can contort her mouth as if it were a landed cel. But the chances are you won't identify yourself with any body...
...pity he chose the most conventional of movie plots, and so could not make the novelty and the frequent nice touches rise above the sluggishness of the whole. The camera eye technique clearly has possibilities in movies that are naturally suited to subjectivity, but in the old missing-woman and private cop hash, it is at best incongruous...
...regulars show up, like Columnist Louella Parsons, Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, society writer of the Los Angeles Examiner. Their host eats heartily (favorite delicacies: cracked crab, pheasant or duck just barely heated), and keeps the table talk on a high plane. Risque stories are out; Hearst recently reprimanded a woman guest who cut loose with a mild "damn." Every night the inevitable movie begins at 11, and bedtime...
...boat captain and a young woman had collapsed during chiropractic treatment -one for headaches, the other for hay fever. They were taken, unconscious, to the hospital at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, died there a few hours later. The hospital doctors were puzzled: there were no signs of injury to the spine (the usual target of a chiropractor's manipulations), no clues to the cause of death. Autopsies on the patients' brains showed that the cerebellums were badly bruised and full of blood clots...
...tell them was in the U.S. last week. Professor Arnold Joseph Toynbee, cultural legate from a Britain in crisis to a U.S. at the crossroads, was delivering six lectures ("Encounters between Civilizations") to the history-haunted young women of Bryn Mawr College. So many students and visitors (one woman drove from Minneapolis to hear Toynbee) crammed the 1,000-seat lecture hall that people had to be turned away...