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...reports that she is about to join radio's cliff hangers and soap operas. In radio parlance, cliffhangers are dramas devoted largely to the perils of Pauline, who is frequently hanging from a cliff or its theatrical equivalent when a day's installment ends. Soap operas are milder thrillers, designed primarily to entertain housewives. Eleanor Roosevelt in her seventh paid radio job will dangle from no cliffs, but she will broadcast for a soap company at an hour when the air is loaded with troubled heroines. At 1:15-1:30 p.m. (E. S. T.) on April...
Last year, milder inventory trouble put April production 10% below March...
...placate the press, Brazil's new censorship rules are considerably milder than the old. Censors stationed in news offices are withdrawn. As in Italy and Germany, newsmen file and print what they please, must accept responsibility if they violate the President's ideas of propriety. But censors are stationed in all cable offices to read outgoing dispatches-just in case...
Pastor McClung's congregation was unsympathetic, kept his phone buzzing with spirited protests. Milder than most was the understatement of red-faced, elderly Elder R. V. Castles: "A preacher would be lowering his aspirations if he sought to become a movie star." Parson McClung took counsel with himself, finally told his flock he would stay with it. Said he tearfully: "I never intended to do anything wrong. . . . The opportunity would have given me much leisure time to do church work. I . . . thought it was the proper thing to do, especially when I would start at a salary ranging from...
...case. John Bellinger was dissatisfied with his status as a dishwasher, they said, and he felt in his unconscious mind that he could not face the world, so he turned his back on it, attempted to retreat into a happy past. He had a simple case of hysteria, much milder than that of many sensitive persons who suddenly become blind or paralyzed when faced with an intolerable situation. Dr. Stapleton began to investigate Bellinger's "life activities from birth to the present," prepared to discuss Bellinger's conflicts with him, hoped to "reeducate him regarding a more adequate...