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...public has become obsessed with the fear of inflation." Thus last week spoke Dr. William C. Freund, economist for the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, in taking an unfrightened look at the bogeyman that haunts the U.S. economic revival. The worry that inflation is ready to start shooting prices up again is nowhere more evident than in the stock market, which last week reached a new high (see State of Business). But is the new inflation psychology justified by the economic facts? Answers Dr. Freund: "The stock market reflects a too acute awareness of the long-term aspects of inflation...
Good Will & Good Sense. Face to face with Westerners over San Francisco's famed food, many a dark-skinned delegate discovered that the capitalist is not the bogeyman pictured by the anti-capitalists (see The Anti-Capitalist Attitude) but a fellow businessman of good will and good sense. Many foreign delegates happily closed deals between conference sessions (see Capital Opportunities...
...broadcasting studio, where the original sound man was back at his old Mars machines, but in trying to chronicle the reaction of different types of people in different situations, Night was forced to juggle more vignettes than it could handle, rarely managed to recapture the ensuing hysteria. Bogeyman Welles, who earned himself a national sponsor for his imagination, failed even to get a mention. Reason: Welles never acknowledged repeated CBS invitations to appear...
Einaudi declared that Harvard has a "duty" to help fight off the advances of "the Communist bogeyman" among students in other countries...
...kneed" leadership in his life, and once again there were many to say that Nye Be van (now living it up on a tour of India) was, after all, the party's best choice for leadership. Such talk always pleases the Tories-Nye Bevan makes such a fine bogeyman to wave at British middle-class voters...