Word: bogeyman
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...Safe & sound sat Ohio full of colleges and memories of Presidents. But last week, in spite of its stout constitution and sound heredity, Ohio was scared stiff that it might be going crazy. What scared Ohio was not only a bogey called the Bigelow Plan. Worse was the bogeyman himself-Herbert Seely Bigelow...
Chubby (George) Orson Welles, whose radio play War of the Worlds convinced many Jerseyites that Martians had captured Newark Airport, arrived there on a garbage truck after the taxi taking him to his plane broke down. Grateful for the ride, Bogeyman Welles cleaned up an old joke and remarked: "The driver was decent enough. When someone asked him what he had aboard, he said 'Actors and garbage.' That gave us top billing...
Orson Welles (Fri. 9 p. m. CBS), No. 1 U. S. Bogeyman, as radiominous Cap tain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty...
...Said Bogeyman Welles: ''Far from expecting the radio audience to take the program as fact rather than as a fictional presentation, we feared that the classic H. G. Wells fantasy . . . might appear too old-fashioned for modern consumption...
...contemporary Naziism) and it survives today in the writings of such eccentrics as Duke University's William McDougall. Most social psychologists have rejected the ethos as a scientifically useless personification, like the patriotic personification of "Uncle Sam" or a child's idea of Jack Frost and the Bogeyman. So far did the reaction swing against the group mind concept that some skeptics began to deny the existence of collective behavior, to declare that it was simply the sum of individual behavior. Dr. Richard Tracy La Piere, associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, believes that both these views...