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...meeting became so explosive that Attlee stepped to Webb's defense, bringing with him the bogeyman that keeps all Laborites awake-the ghost of Ramsay Macdonald. Would Labor split on meat, and go down to defeat as Macdonald's divided party had in 1931? The caucus was stilled into grumbling acquiescence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plenty of Sleeping Pills | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Although the huge, government-owned casino at fashionable Mar del Plata is the world's largest, it is just as vulnerable as any other gambling house to that once-in-a-million bogeyman, the little gambler with a system that really works. Last week Mar del Plata had to call in the police to help them get rid of a horrifying 30 steady customers, who seemed to have found the dread formula for winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Bank Breakers | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Visiting at a Manhattan Book Fair for children, stage & screen Bogeyman Boris Karloff called for more realism and violence in moppets' books. A diet of namby-pamby stories, he said, gives "the younger generation a completely distorted picture of the world we live in and leaves them totally unequipped to cope with the world's very real problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Golden Moments | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...story of a Churkandoose, which was neither chicken, turkey, duck or goose: "I'm sure . . . you'll respect his right to be different"). It looked as though onetime Frankenstein Monster Karloff, who reported a "tremendous reaction from children and their mothers," might yet live down his bogeyman reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Heroes & Treasure Chests | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...Uncle Silas; seen through the delicate, complex lenses of the Bowen prose, it seems a masterpiece. But anyone who takes the preface away from his eye, and looks squarely at the book, will see only a first-rate thriller about a mid-Victorian miss pursued by a bogeyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kind Lady | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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