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This scheme still has a horrid ring to free-enterprising airmen. But some of those who had been fighting the Chosen Instrument a few years ago have privately come around to Patterson's and Trippe's way of thinking. There have not been enough converts to cause a significant shift in thinking about U.S. air policy. But Pat Patterson is sure that the U.S. will soon have to face the hard fact that, in an international air world peopled by monopolistic Chosen Instruments, the U.S. will have to use the same kind of weapon...
Ingrid Bergman was another on Louis' list. His horrid word for her coifs: "vapid." Miss Bergman scarcely knew what to think. Simultaneously, the smart-chart Town & Country published a full-page, seven-picture spread of Bergman hairdos, held her tresses up to its readers as "a shining example...
...just-miss effect is bound to be prevalent, and unless a skillful and thorough editorial hand guides the magazine more carefully in the future, "Radditudes" will find itself with a chronic weakness. In "Afraid of Happiness," for instance, Miss Susan Seidman makes a brave attempt at satirizing a special horrid type of love-story--the sort that appears in periodicals of the "True Romance" ilk. For the most part, she achieves her effect subtly, but she spoils the total impression by an occasional broad and incongruous touch. The borderline between burlesque and satire is a hazy one; nonetheless...
Thank you for your comment in the horrid story of a high-school sorority initiation [TIME, Jan. 13], to the effect that the properly shocked foreign lady was assured by her U.S. friends "that it was not typical of college sororities...
...might be competent to deal with it would regard themselves as bound by conscience to make the picture either as black or as white as possible: either to show that those glorious creatures, our industrial leaders, are fashioning for us a system ever more perfect, or else that those horrid predators, the millionaires, are fastening upon us the chains of fascism...