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...neurotics is just what Dr. Frank N. Allan, of Boston's Lahey Clinic, might call them-but he has an even more encouraging word for their disease. Four years ago he thought up a new category for people who can live with their jitters if they have to-"benign nervousness...
...Teatime Touch. With the benign air of the family's favorite aunt, florid, white-haired Party Chairman Lord Woolton rose on the flower-lined platform to announce good news. Conservative membership had risen from 1,200,000 to 2,250,000 from December 1947 to June 1948. Recent public opinion polls had shown that the Tories were ahead. But the delegates realized that they were still far from home. Said one: "The tide is turning. We must harness it to our projects." Said another: "But what are our projects...
Noting that "Dr. Lee de Forest, one of radio's pioneers, has described the new eater of evenings as a 'Benign Frankenstein,' " the FORUM wonders if there are not "many who would question his use of the word benign." Is there any basis for optimism? "The U.S., essentially unchanged by such other modern advances as the supersonic airplane and the super-septic tank, may survive television. A remote possibility...
Penmanship. In Walla Walla, Wash., a week after Francis Drake got a suspended sentence for petty larceny and a dollar in cash from benign Judge T. A. Paul, he turned up in court on a forgery charge, explained that he had used the court's dollar to buy a fountain...
...publisher, Eleanor Medill Patterson knew how to employ the carrot as well as the stick. In benign moments she used to tell top hands on her Washington Times-Herald that when she died, the paper would go to them. Last week, in her will, she made good on her promise. The Times-Herald, valued at around $7,000,000, was left to seven faithful executives. Overnight each of the seven became a millionaire. Her estate will even pay the inheritance taxes. The lucky seven: ¶ Editor-in-Chief Frank C. Waldrop, 42, who never crossed the boss, became an executor...