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...stature. In an address in Manhattan entitled "The Road to Realism," Johnston summed up the fears and hopes of many a U.S. executive. Johnston's fear is that present emphasis on Federal power will lead the U.S. to totalitarianism. Said he: "Super-statism is not a bogey of the businessmen's imagination. It is the monster which has catapulted the world into war. . . . Unless we recognize it as a real danger, we shall lose by default...
...Bogey-man in chief used to be the News Board in general and the Managing Editor in particular. Candidates told gruesome tales of all-day slavery and all-night vigils, telling at type-writers, inking rollers, carrying presses and liontype machines but that's all over. You'll come out tomorrow night drink your beer, and start out fast with careful guidance making the most of every precious minute...
...result, the Harvard diploma, which appeared about as attainable as a set of tires to many in 1941, now becomes the well-earned possession of many a young officer and enlisted man. The great and universally-felt fear of tailspinning standards, the bogey-like dilemma of a year ago, has been avoided by the preservation of a great part of the teaching faculty, and a resolute rigidity in the entrance requirements...
...paralysis struck her in June 1941, Operatic Soprano Marjorie Lawrence appeared before an audience: 600 guests at a Metropolitan Opera Guild luncheon in Manhattan. She arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria's ballroom in a wheelchair, sang from a settee. Lily Pons fell victim to the singer's bogey, laryngitis, canceled a concert in Houston. Artemisa Elias Calles, black-eyed, 28-year-old daughter of Mexico's ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles, made her debut as a professional dancer in Manhattan, gave flamenco and Spanish dances in a floor show at the Hotel Pierre. Cheerleader on the sidelines...
Going into the fall, producers seem as happy as clams at high tide. With a big summer behind them, they see an even bigger winter ahead; they have got back their nerve and are certain that the war, which was last season's bogey, will be this season's benefactor. They are, to be sure, playing safe, with arms outstretched toward musicals, comedies, romantic period pieces, anything labeled Escape; and thumbs pretty well down on drama. Last season's eight war-themed flops have taught them a lesson...