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...getting tired of the attempts by Westbrook Pegler and others to try to "debunk" our national anthem (TIME, March...
Walt Disney was in Boston early this morning, planning to confer with Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, this afternoon and tomorrow to gather material for a new movie which will debunk Nazi race ideology...
Aside from the daily newspaper and the radio there is no more potent propaganda weapon in the United States than the motion picture. Hollywood has not been unconscious of its power; through the late 1930's the films ceased to debunk war and gradually, through such efforts as "Arise My Love," made Americans conscious of its implications. In fact, these films provoked certain Senators so far into consciousness that they started an investigation of war-mongering among Hollywood producers last fall. But the movie industry today seems to be resting on its laurels, whatever they...
Most people like to study statistics, perhaps because they are usually depressing, and almost everyone has a touch of sadism or masochism in him. At any rate, John Tunis' classic debunk of things at Harvard several years ago was able to provide Harvard men with something of a thrill. In addition, it was enough to give them an acute inferiority complex enough to convince them that they went out with clay pipes instead of silver spoons. Most Harvard graduates, infers Mr. Tunis, must have the fate of Broadway's current Harvard man-the spectacular specimen in "The Priterose Path...
Ever since he read a newspaper editorial on the small speedster some time ago, Dr. Irving Langmuir, General Electric Co.'s Nobel Prizewinning research ace, has doubted that it could fly anywhere near as fast as it was billed. Recently, with characteristic thoroughness. Dr. Langmuir set out to debunk the botfly; last week he published his findings in Science...