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...subtle--you can see it and ignore it. The best propaganda movie I saw was in my medic course. A guy gets up there on the screen and he says "Would you like to know what Communists call you in different countries? In London they call you bubble gum chewers. In France they call you gangsters. In Korea they call you murderers!" And he makes this a very personal thing. He points out at you from the screen and says "This is what they feel about you! How do you like being called a bubble gum chewer...
...Orval Faubus was changing. No longer a matchstick chewer. no longer in pants that ended north of his socks, he became a well-dressed fellow, took to dark suits with a white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket. He still spouted cliches ("A stitch in time . . ."; "An ounce of prevention . . .") and he still called the militia the me-lish-ee. but he talked big about running for a third term (which no Arkansas governor has had since 1905) and even acted as if he would like to move into bigger political hills. Said one observer of Orval Faubus...
...snores of yesteryear? In 1901, the short, unhappy life of François Villon, the notorious balladist of 15th century France, was rewritten by Playwright Justin McCarthy as a long, claptrappy rapier romance that held the stage for decades and made E. H. Sothern the most famous scenery-chewer of his time...
Easy Prey. The Navajos, already wretched in their poverty and disease (TIME, Nov. 3, 1947), were easy prey for peyote peddlers. The stuff offered them escape from their troubles. After a twinge of nausea (felt only by beginners), the peyote-chewer gets an otherworldly sensation of being in two parts. Then come visions and hallucinations, always involving bright colors and lights-"dreams in Technicolor." The medical aftereffects, still in dispute, apparently include impairment of the heart and kidneys...
...pound for the more delicate, harder-to-cultivate peppermint. This year, all of his spearmint will go to William Wrigley Jr. Co. to flavor chewing gum. The peppermint will go to Wrigley, Beech-Nut and other gum makers. Naturally, Gehring is a faithful gum-chewer...