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...hand with the increase of comic books. Said Dr. Wertham: "We are getting to the roots of one of the contributing causes of juvenile delinquency. . . . You cannot understand present-day juvenile delinquency if you do not take into account the pathogenic and pathoplastic influence of the comic books." In plainer language: comic books not only inspire evil but suggest a form for the evil to take...
...Germany (see below). It had been reached at long last when the U.S., goaded by the Czech crisis, stepped up pressure on France. The same Czech crisis had spurred the French to the realization that they had at least as much to fear from Russia as from Germany. Even plainer was the fact that only closest cooperation between the Western powers, including the U.S., could protect France from either Germany or Russia...
...symphony was dedicated to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a man of catholic tastes-though his musical likes ran to plainer fare like Home on the Range. The premiere last week in San Francisco of Roger Sessions' Symphony No. 2 was hard work for musicians and audience alike...
...Toil, Trouble, Disease. In even plainer copywriting words she told the admen...
Never have I been in a dirtier, plainer big city than Memphis. And never have I read such phony kowtowing to that city and to Boss Crump as that which appeared in your May 27 issue...