Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankenstein Meets the Wolf...
...Frankenstein is dead, but the monster lives on forever and only a little warmth is needed to bring him out of an ice-cake coma. Lon Chaney does the honors to this former Kario: monopoly but no one could ever recognize a person under that mound of greasepaint and sponge-rubber anyway. Bela Lugosi as the wolfman who finds warm blood and moonshine a most stimulating combination, grows progressively more and more, and less and less hirstute as the moons wax and wane...
...with all criminals, monsters and werewolves, the Hay's office is placated by a dutifully gruesome death of the major offenders. After being successively burned and volcanoed to death, Frankenstein's monster meets an open circuit with the usual results while the wolfman sheds his hair and incidentally his life in a satisfying manner. But don't worry you can't keep a good monster down and they'll be back for more. Until then this will have to hold your horror...
...keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
...swift, numbing surprise was the assassination of Admiral Jean François Darlan, the onetime French collaborator who had become America's friend, or America's tool, or perhaps America's moral Frankenstein (see p. 24). The nation heard Franklin Roosevelt's angry reaction: ". . . first-degree murder." It listened to good grey Secretary of State Cordell Hull: ". . . an odious and cowardly act." But many Americans did not know whether to be horrified or relieved, and their not knowing was a heavy burden...