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...Ginger Rogers did not "scream." She was so affected, her voice was scarcely audible...
...head, crashed them to the pavement, piled them neatly under his knee. Officer Westgate, a thoughtful man, decided that women, too, should be able to protect themselves; specifically that his wife Violet (weight, 114 Ib.) should be able to repel mashers. "No," said Violet, "I'd rather scream." "You must," said Officer Westgate, flipping her headlong across the room. "See how easy it is? I'll have no thug beating up my missus." Violet agreed to learn four holds, no more. They studied together, became adept. Interest in the Westgates' ability grew; week ago the Detroit police...
...biggest U. S. city, more lives were upset there than anywhere else. Chairman of one of New York's 280 boards was the Rev. George T. Gruman, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. Mr. Gruman's district is a drab and musty slum, where elevated trains scream past, sidewalks are dirty or nonexistent, and unpainted picket fences fail to dignify the disheveled houses. Before Mr. Gruman, the Lutheran businessman and the president of a Hebrew school who sit with him on Local Board 229, paraded the poor of the district...
Young America now gobbles up about 10,000,000 comic books a month-an overseasoned, indigestible, nerve-shattering, eye-ruining diet of non-comic murder, torture, kidnappings, sex-baiting. Traceable to these hyperthyroid thrillers are many a midnight scream in the nursery, many a juvenile nervous tantrum. Some parents ban the lurid comic books; the more thoughtful try to substitute "good" books. Meanwhile the comic books go marching on-with a slight drop due to the loss of the export market...
What have they done with the rip-roaring scream-squeezing digestion-turning horrors of old? Where is the stupendous fantasy of King Kong, the revolting blackness of The Mystery of the Wax Museum, Zombie, The Cat and the Canary, Frankenstein? It seems that Hollywood first tried to give son-and-daughter sequels to these original blood-curdlers. And when that didn't work, they turned away from blackness for blackness' sake, and took refuge in the arms of Morality...