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...become clear even to those who wish him well that Hitler's Bad Boy is an abysmally different species from Peck's. Indeed it is hardly necessary for Emil to try to murder his young cousin (Joan Carroll) to convince everyone that he is, in fact, a symptom of a very ugly kind of social disease, a possibly incurable human being, at twelve...
...Darkness. Lindner's subject is Harold, 21, serving a long term for a serious, unnamed crime. Harold, the son of a bull-tempered Polish laborer who speaks no English, has been in trouble with the police, mostly for pilfering, since the age of twelve. His most conspicuous psychopathic symptom was a constant blinking of his eyes...
Said Roy Howard: "The Scripps-Howard parting with Pegler is a symptom of a journalistic problem that arises when a writer is given carte blanche to express himself with complete and uncontrolled freedom. . . . This problem . . . concerns . . . journalistic technique and editorial judgment in determining how loudly and how frequently a writer may sound a single note without upsetting a newspaper's editorial balance. . . . Scripps-Howard has never exercised control over the subject matter or the opinions of Mr. Pegler as they appear in his column, but we have been unable to satisfy many of our readers on this point...
...protest against schedules requiring alternate twelve-and four-hour days caused the strike. But the peremptory strike and the Government's peremptory action was a gaudy symptom of a serious condition. Labor unrest was growing in Britain, workers in many regions and industries were in revolt against their own leaders. And the Government was getting tough. Last week it put into effect a regulation providing imprisonment up to five years, fines of $2,000 for persons convicted of fomenting strikes...
...something had happened to Britain-something which jolted England's No. 2 churchman (with his colleague and superior, Dr. Temple) into viewing the war as not merely a struggle for survival between two political power groups, United Nations and Axis, but also as a symptom of a social disease so virulent, long-standing and neglected that only war's desperate surgery could begin to treat it. The Archbishop's three weeks' in the U.S. would give secular eyes a chance to observe at close range the No. 2 representative of England's ecclesiastical change...