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...despite Dr. Norton's persuasiveness, chances for federal aid seemed little brighter than during all the years (the last hearing was eight years ago) that educators have quarreled about it. Although the bill stipulates that state and local control shall remain inviolate, archconservatives fear the bogey of federal control of schools; some Catholics are afraid that their parochial schools would suffer; many a Congressman suspects selfish motives in the bill's main lobbyist, the National Education Association, whose membership is composed overwhelmingly of teachers (who stand to gain a $200-million-a-year boost in total salaries...
Brazil's relaxing dictator, Getulio Vargas, recognized Soviet Russia last week. For years, he had used a souped-up version of the Red Bogey to double-rivet his dictatorship; now, with the San Francisco Conference only three weeks away, Russia was a power which could not be ignored and should no longer be antagonized...
Protestants and Roman Catholics, who have been eyeing each other nervously for several months, have begun to see things under their respective beds. The Protestants' bogey is a Catholic-controlled U.S.; the Catholics' is the white hood of the Ku Klux Klan. Last week even the sensible Jesuit weekly America began to look over its shoulder. Said America...
...sultry cinema sirens (To Have and Have Not), arrived in Manhattan for a well-timed "rest," topped the tabloids with a well pressagented romance. Her leading man, Cinema Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart, happened to be staying at the Hotel Gotham, where she put up. To swarming newsmen, she confided: "Bogey is a real swell guy. We have a lot of fun together. . . ." Bogart, currently separated from his wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, got in character to pronounce his opinion of Lauren: "Baby's . . . a real Joe." Bogey and Baby have just completed their second picture, The Big Sleep...
...Road to Peace. The first was the problem of the transition to peace. As the year opened, this looked mountainous. As it closed, it was not yet a molehill, but the bulldozers were at work. As a result, reconversion was no longer a bogey to frighten businessmen. In the days when the collapse of Germany was expected momentarily, the basic rules for reconversion had been hastily laid. Under them, some 95% of U.S. industry could see the path cleared to shift from war to peace production within two months after the green light was given...