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...been listed as ailing for various reasons; in the Princeton game his presence alone was enough of a threat to justify his use as a decoy. Harvard partisans will remember his tackle and guard dives in the 1946 and 1947 games, however; the memory alone should be enough to frighten anyone who believes that Nadherny is through...
...human welfare. In Herbert Lehman's dictionary, welfare meant "condition of health, happiness, prosperity." What was wrong with that? "This is the bogyman they have set up which is supposed to frighten the wits out of us." Did Dulles think of himself as a Paul Revere spreading the alarm? Scoffed Lehman: Dulles is "galloping backward...
...artistic tantrums. Far from turning out designs with offhand sureness, he works them over painstakingly until the client is satisfied. He also has an almost hypnotic power to impress, persuade and convince the toughest tycoon. Even the American Tobacco Co.'s late George Washington Hill, who used to frighten advertising men out of their wits, wilted under Loewy's gentle suasion. He paid him the whopping fee of $50,000 just for designing a new white package for Lucky Strike in 1942 ("Lucky Strike green has gone...
...Today, the widely publicized cancer campaigns [and] the overzealous, inexperienced routineers who man many clinics . . . who heedlessly and needlessly frighten patients, are rapidly increasing individual panic into a national stampede. Unchecked, this movement will leave in its wake a wide swath of hopelessly neurotic persons, of disabled and unnecessarily mutilated women...
...Clarence A. Mills's finger-shaking warning on the evils and dangers of smoking after an attack of coronary thrombosis [TIME, June 20] will frighten no one acquainted with the more recent scientific literature on the subject...