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...sober citizen. His chief indulgence is his farm, now more arboreal than ever. Tall, dark and glittering, with Mephistophelean eyebrows and Biblical eyes, for six years he has been going to a psychoanalyst, quips: "I ought to get my F (for Freud) any day now." The visits have helped dispel the dark self-doubts from which the bright gadgets offered escape. They have given him, among other things, the courage to write alone. But he still has his moments of funk. He still spends an opening night in the men's room. He still dramatizes everything: he proudly arrived...
...Declarations of the Moscow Conference do, indeed, open the way to necessary international cooperation for peace as well as for war. In this they represent a definite step in the right direction. They do not however dispel the fear that compromises on the ideals of the Atlantic...
...century. Yet Francis Spellman may have talked to Russian envoys in Ankara. The dissolution of the Comintern (TIME, May 31) had come in the midst of his mission, and it must have pleased the papacy. The Vatican radio had begun broadcasts to Russia, friendly in nature and designed to dispel the Russian people's "complete spiritual isolation." Moscow had not objected...
Britain (a highly placed official): "It ought to dispel the fears of elderly maiden aunts everywhere." The Labor Party's orthodox trade unionists said it would not affect the opposition to a request from the British Communist Party for affiliation...
...Rails. Last week's reports should dispel any lingering fears that the railroads will go broke without last year's rate rise which ICC canceled last month (TIME, April 26). Alone in all U.S. industry, the rails made a spectacular showing. Lumbering New York Central almost quadrupled its 1942 earnings, hit $16,100,000- a 14-year high. The wobbly Rock Island did likewise, pushing its net up to $8,800,000 (v. $2,300,000 last year); Denver & Rio Grande jumped from $463,000 to $2,474,000; Great Northern turned a $92,000 deficit into...