BRILLIANT SPECIALIST VICTIM OF POLITICAL PERSECUTION

Patients die because U.S. hospital.
bars doctor named in witch - aint

AN INFANT of 20 months and
an aged man of 83 years died
within ten days of each’ other
in a Los Angeles hospital as a
direct result of the political per-
secution sweeping the United
States.

Both died of kidney ailments.
Both died in the Cedars of Leb-
anon Hospital. They died after
officials had denied them the
services of the one physician
who might have saved their
lives. He had been fingered by
the witch-hunters. :

The doctor whose services
were denied both patients was
Dr. Richard W.
with two other doctors, had been
barred from practice at the hos-
pital “ for political reasons.”

Dr. Lippman is one of Am-
erica’s most brilliant young re-
search scientists in heart and
Kidney diseases.

On March 1 he was granted a
two-year extension of his re-
search fellowship by the U.S.
National Institute of Health
for continuation of his work in
kidney tissue culture.

Some weeks ago Dr Lipp-
man was. called for consul-
tation in the case of the 82-
year-old man.
leave the hospital.

The man subsequently died.

Then Dr. Lippman was call-
ed for consultation on the kid-
ney ailment of the 20-month-
one child. He warned the phy-
sician in charge of the case that
he had been barred from the
hospital,

The physician told Dr. Lipp-
man that unless he was allowed
to attend the infant there was
no hope ‘for its recovery.

‘Within a few minutes of Dr.

Lippman who,

He was asked to ~

‘been sold,

WHAT'S ON THE oe REE

Lippman’s arrival at the hos-
pital his presence was reported
to officials. Before he.could
sée the patient, he was told to
leave.

DR. HEWLITT JOHNSON

Writing new book

FIFTY-FIVE thousand copies
of I Appeal by Dr. Hewlitt John-
son, Dean of Canterbury, have
it is announced by
Friendship

the  Britain-China
Association.

Dr. Johnson is now working
on a new book on China, 30,000
words of which are already on
paper.

“It tells the story of the won-
derful things my wife and I saw
on our visit,’’ he said last week.
“My wife is doing the jacket
and illustrations. We hope it
will be published this fall.”

Special appeals were made by
the family and their physician
on the ground that Dr. Lipp-
man was the only physician who
could give adequate advice in
the case.

Those appeals were turned
down, and Dr. Lippman was
forced to leave the hospital.

The infant died.

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A DRAMATIC protest against
exclusion of Dr. Lippman and
two other doctors was made by '
a woman who phoned the Cedars
of Lebanon Hospital asking if
Professor-Doctor Jessica Green-
span of the University of Vien-
na might be connected with the
medical superintendent.

The telephone operator was
impressed. So was the super-
intendent’s secretary. In no
time at all the superintendent
was on the phone,

“Are you Dr. Greenspan?” he
asked, quite congenially.

“No,’’? answered the woman,
“T’m calling for her.’’

“You’re interpreting for her,
no doubt?’’

“Not exactly. ‘You see, Dr.
Greenspan was professor of
physiology at the University of
Vienna.”

Noga?”

“Actually, I’m speaking in
memory of Dr. Greenspan. She
was incinerated at the death
camp in ‘Tremblinka,
She was my cousin. In her
name I want to protest the fir-
ing of the three doctors from
your hospital for ‘political’ reas-
ons. .I couldn’t get past your
secretary when I first phoned.
So I called on behalf of Dr.
Greenspan.”’-

‘We're Not Married’ rates as
good satire depite weak ending

WHAT -.A RICH field for
satire there is in American poli-
tics, American. corruption of
marriage, American commercial
radio. We’re Not Married,

grasping the possibilities, opens

brilliantly.

Fred Allen and Ginger Rog-
ers are sheer joy as a pair of
radio artists who have to mar-
ty in order to get a breakfast
hour program in which they are
a happily married couple.

The digs at nepotism in gov-
ernment, the technique of the
gold-digging divorcee and many
another established custom of
» the American way of life have
the thrust of real satire.

What was needed to make this
story of five couples who sud-
denly find they are not legally

“and produced We’re Not

married one of the best comedies
of the year was a_ super-acid
climax.

Nunnally yohueor, who wrote
Mar-
ried doesn’t dare so much. The
film peters out in sentimentality.
But there’s enough satire, sharp
direction and first-rate comedy
acting here to make this one
picture worth seeing.

* * *
HIGH NOON |

Gary Cooper Western with
brilliant suspensa technique but,
unfortunately, perpetuates Hol-
lywood’s ‘‘people are no damn
good”’ theory.

THE NARROW MARGIN

Hollywood B budget, this film
stands on g train thriller level
with The Lady Vanishes. Sus-
pense filled, it holds interest

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RASHOMON
Defeatist Japanese film pos-

ing the question, ‘“‘What is
truth?” Only apparent answer
is all men are liars. Nihilist
theme cancels merits of beauti-
ful photography, competent Ree
ing.
CARRIE

It is to the credit of Theodore
Dreiser rather than William
Wyler, who produced and di-
rected Carrie for Paramount,
that so. much of the original
story comes through in the film.
Despite the expert emasculation,
this is a picture worth, seeing.

ENCORE

Somerset Maugham owes his
phenomenal success as a writer
to the fact that almost through
‘out his career he has applied his
major talent to minor art, En-,
core is as good an example as
any of this. technique. The three
stories in the film are really no
more than anecdotes. But Mau-
shan brings to them all the
and expert
“manipulation of a man who
knows every trick of his trade,
and by sheer technical virtu-
osity he persuades us that these
sentimental trivia are profound
comments on ‘life. 5

Poland, °

THE SCALPEL, THE SWORD

DR. NORMAN BETHUNE

’

Bethune biography appears|

THH STORY of a great
Canadian whiose’ life was
bound up with the struggle
to change the world and]
make it a better place for its |
peoples appeared in book-
stores this week, The Scalpel;
The Sword, by Ted Allen and
Sydney Gordon, is the bio- |
graphy of Dr. Norman Beth-
une who succumbed to blood
poisoning while leading #]
Canadian medical miission 1 |
China during the early years
cf the anti-Japanese war. AD
outstanding surgeon’ and 4
pioneer in blood transfusion |
work, Bethune headed the
Canadian medical mission
which served with the Re-
publican armies in Spain.

The Scalpel, The Sword 5
obtainable here at the Peo
ple’s Cooperative Bookstore ,
337 West Pender Street
priced at $5.

GUIDE TO GOOD READING

Hemingway's touted novel

just another

THE OLD MAN in Ernest
Hemingway’s new novel, The
Old Man of the Sea, is actually
Hemingway. The fish, his big-
gest ever,
est book. The evil and vorac-
ious sharks which tear it to bits
are the critics,

“ This is the interpretation ar-
rived at by many readers of
Hemingway’s 27,000-word novel
which appeared in the Septem-
ber 1 issue of, Life magazine,
and I go along with it. Stung
by the unfavorable’ reviews
which greeted his Across the
River and into the Trees two
years ago, the aging Heming-
way tries a comeback by revert-
ing to the formula he used with
considerable success in writing
monthly fishing articles.for Hs-

. quite magazine in the thirties.

Hemingway would reject the
idea that he’s trying a come-
back, of course. He still insists
he’s the champ. In an inter-
view with a New Yorker report-
er’ some time ago, he boasted
that he was ‘“‘the champ in the
twenties, in the thirties and the
forties, and still is.” é

The bells tolled for Heming-
way when he wrote For Whom
the Bell Tolls, but he never
heard himself being’ counted
out. Like any punch-drunk pug
who starts shadow-boxing every
time an alarm-clock rings, Hem-

_ingway still imagines he’s the

heavyweight ijliterature _ title-
holder, demolishing al] comers.
* * x

THE STORY THEME in The
Old Man and the Sea is very
simple. For 84. consecutive
days an old Cuban fisherman,
has caught no fish; on the 85th
day he goes far out and hooks
a huge marlin. For two days
and nights he pits his strength
against the 18-foot fish, finally
wins, But on the way. back,
with the marlin lashed to the

side of his boat, hungry sharks

attack again and again, and he
brings in nothing. but a stripped
skeleton. i

Then there is a young boy,
who fished with the old man
but whose parents sent him to
fish with someone who was
“luckier.’’ The boy learned how
to fish from the old man, but
now he is not in the boat when
he is needed most,

Conquering the fish becomes

is Hemingway’s great- °

fish ste
all-important to the old mad
He must show the boy and the
fish “what a man can do a2
what a man endures.”

““T told the boy 1 was #
strange old man,’ he said. ‘NoW
is when I must prove it.’

“The thousand times that 24
had proved it meant nothins
Now he was proving it agaill.
Bach time was a new time and —
he never thought about the past
when he was doing it.’ ;

HEMINGWAY |
Importance of being Ernest
Yes, the old man is Hemi8-

way. He’s still trying to prov®
himself the champ, each book i8 —
a new defense of the title he’s
so sure he won in the twenties
with his A Farewell to Arms._
You can’t hurt. a punchy
fighter, for ‘he lives ei a dream
world of his own. No criticis™
can bring home to Hemingw@J
the truth that he never‘
champion, for he’s always live@
in a world of his own creatio®,
in which the central figure W2*
himself. All the books he’s —
written could be titled The 1™
portance of Being Ernest, ‘
‘When Hemingway deals with -
subjects dike fishing and bull
fighting he writes with authorit¥
and is highly readable.
Old Man falls into this categoTy
and consequently is “good Hel
ingway.” Good, that is, as colt
pared to bad or stinker HemiDs- —
way of For Whom the Bell
and Across the River and in
the Trees.—BERT WHYTE.

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