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...Warner, 44, is a onetime British schoolmaster whose personal bogeyman has by now become that of most men of good will: the cynical assumption of the dictators that mankind fears nothing so much as freedom and longs for nothing so much as to be asked for blind political obedience. Men of Stones is Warner's fifth novel of worried warning...
Many Rhode Islanders, including prominent doctors, regarded voluntary insurance as the only way to stave off compulsory health insurance. By their delaying tactics, the doctors were flirting with the bogeyman they most feared...
Atomic Soil. As TVA administrator, David E. Lilienthal was once the bogeyman of private power magnates. As chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Lilienthal spoke soothing words in Detroit to free enterprisers. Reporting that commercially feasible atomic power was probably at least a decade off, Lilienthal added : "... This atomic industry can never flourish and grow and find its proper place . . . unless it sends its roots deep and wide into the . . . soil of competitive private industry." Suiting action to words, Lilienthal appointed seven industrialists as consultants on atomic power...
Married. Boris Karloff (real name: William Henry Pratt), 58, gaunt cinema bogeyman; and Evelyn Helmore, 42; both for the second time; in Boulder City, Nev., the day after Karloff was granted a divorce from his first wife, Dorothy Stine Pratt, who he said was cruel...
...declare that Russia is the sole hand which stirs the potent brew ? All through our press and in the statements of our leading politicos, I see references to "aggression in Eastern Europe," "the Red menace in Iran" (how that Red bogeyman haunts us still!), and other seemingly terrifying militaristic moves. But what of the presence of British troops in Greece ? . . . What of the massacres freedom-seeking Indonesians by British and Dutch troops...