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...Washington, Administration officials spoke in tones of unmistakable concern. At a press conference in the State Department's second-floor auditorium, a sober Secretary of State told newsmen that the situation was "very, very serious." Next night, before the Federal Council of Churches in the echoing Gothic nave of Washington's great unfinished cathedral, the Secretary repeated his warnings...
Only one Southern stalwart came forward to sound a sober warning to the secessionists. He was no warm friend of Harry Truman's. But Florida's Senator Claude Pepper thought Virginia's ballot plan a "brazen scheme," the effect of which would be to give the electoral voting power "to a little group of party bosses...
...self-esteem dented. Lord Chief Justice Goddard had decided against an art dealer who was suing Dodge for $27,200, the uncollected price of a painting. Dodge had claimed that the painting was a bogus Sir Thomas Lawrence, which he never would have bought if he had been sober. Commented the Lord Chief Justice: "Dodge was behaving . . . as what would be described in his own country as a common drunk...
...Cures" & Quacks. Did Freud give up hypnotism too soon? Authors Wolfe and Rosenthal, sure that he did, report hypnotic effects that make Svengali* look like a tyro. They claim that hypnotism has cured numerous cases of psychoneurosis, made childbirth painless and alcoholics sober. They reassure prospective patients by saying that no one can be forced to act against his moral principles while in a trance (e.g., a girl cannot be hypnotically seduced if she does not want to be; if she does, the authors add gravely, "hypnosis is an unnecessarily involved and roundabout route...
Breadwinner. In Cambridge, Mass., a housewife explained why she kept her husband drunk: sober, he made $30 a week; in jail for drunkenness, he made her eligible for $60-a-week welfare...