Word: phobias
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Frampton Mansell munitions manufacturer, art patron, bachelor, a snappy dresser who cultivated his whiskers to bring out his resemblance to Sir Francis Drake. His phobia was ineficiency; his favorite pastime, composing ads for the latest wrinkle in Mansell ma-chine guns: "Mansell's Deadly Death Rose". . . A child can use it . . . Invaluable to all Dictators . . . A Corpse for a Ha'penny...
...author's style is terse, to the point, easy to read. There are no wasted words. This is a dignified chronicle of a dignified event. Even the Harvard-phobia who starts at the first page will not lay down the book until the end is reached. A sense of the magnitude of what is being recorded grasps the reader comparable to that which grasped the watchers last year. Mr. Greene makes those days live again...
...this is America." After delivering a strait-jacketed Negro to Mississippi authorities, he was picked to attend Officers' Training School in Georgia, where for the first time he found things a little more suggestive of German goose-stepping and got his first and last brief taste of spy phobia. But he was still firm in the belief that "the Army is like a mother...
Sued for Divorce. William Ellery Leonard, 60, poet (Two Lives), longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin; by Mrs. Grace Golden Leonard. 28, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. Grounds: cruelty. Celebrated for his distance-phobia, he would not travel more than five blocks from his house...
...seen her not only minus the disguise but minus most of her clothing. Miss Rogers begins to cure herself. Stung by Brent's superciliousness toward actresses, she takes him to see one of her pictures in a village cinema, makes an enthusiastic personal appearance before she realizes her phobia is gone. Remarkable sight: Miss Rogers in black wig, spectacles, false teeth, which make her so thoroughly unattractive that RKO's publicity department forebore to release "stills"' of her thus disguised...