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...results. Teacher Vernon failed to observe a simple fact: the children were terrified. "I was crying when I wrote my essay," said Jean Francis. "So were Lesley Brown, Vicky Weir and Susan Howarth." Complained one mother: "My little girl came home sobbing about an H-bomb. Now she daren't go upstairs in the dark." Jean Francis' father gruffed: "This could upset their whole lives...
...former inmate says of the sighted: "They've kept us alive, but they don't want to bother with us; we're too troublesome. They don't know what to do with us, but they're scared of God, so they daren't quite let us die.'' Yet Bjarnhof's blind also know that they must somehow cross die invisible color line back to the world of the seeing, or else lapse into the shufflers' parade toward "nothingness...
...Concerning your Aug. 5 story on Airman Donald Wheeler: The armed forces are chicken; they daren't enforce orders. But should they try, get a pressagent to whip up a frenzied campaign to save you from discipline. Carry your case to the public through press, radio, and courier where necessary. You'll win if you whine and weep. My nomination for our next "National Hero": Airman Donald Wheeler...
They Dare Not Go AHunting, a psychological study of the relations between a mother and her daughter, was inspired by a line from British Poet William Ailingham's The Fairies ("We daren't go ahunting for fear of little men"). Born (1919) Dorothea Graff in Pittsburgh (she married Du Pont Engineer Donovan Cornwell on leaving high school), Author Cornwell began her literary career writing book reviews for the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator, later turned to short-story writing. In 1942 she won second prize in a Story magazine short-story contest. A devotee of dancing, riding, dogs and South...
...uncompromising pacifist, "Old George" Lansbury. With invincible stubbornness Mr. Lansbury remained unmoved by the frantic pleas of practical Labor politicians of the old guard. Said they, in effect: "Don't you see, George, that the Government has whipped people up into such a lather against Italy that Labor daren't oppose sanctions, even if they mean war?" This Mr. Lansbury could see clearly enough. Several hundred London stockbrokers and clerks last week mobbed Sir Oswald Mosley's British Fascist news-youths in Throgmorton Street, seized their papers and burned them, knocked off the helmets of London bobbies...