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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SUPERSTITIONS (269 pp.)-E. and M. A. Radford-Philosophical Library...
Levelheaded readers will grin at these and other ancient beliefs, which London Daily Mirror Columnists Edwin and Mona Radford have catalogued in their Encyclopaedia of Superstitions. Anyone who touches wood to forestall bad luck, or avoids walking under ladders, or refuses to light three cigarettes on a match, is not permitted, however, to grin too widely. He should read on. Some authorities hold that "touching wood" signifies touching the Holy Cross for protection; others look still further back into the past and see it as an invocation of tree spirits. A ladder leaning against a wall forms a triangle, which...
Male Animal. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Dorothy Bemis Radford won a divorce on the ground that her husband would not allow her to sit on his lap to watch television. Mrs. Joyce Holdridge sued for divorce, charging that every time she was near her husband she would "break out in a rash from head...
Four days later Johnson followed up that threat with a major personnel change which looked like the first crackdown. Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, wartime task-group commander, was relieved of his post as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and made Commander in Chief of the stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions...
...Submariner Denfeld's chief executive, Airman Radford will run the Navy's day-to-day operations while Denfeld fights its battles with Congress, the Budget Bureau and the White House. On second look, even the Navy's "Young Turks" conceded that it would be hard to find a better team...