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...Mark of the Vampire (TIME, May 6) are likely to be even more perturbed by this ugly blossom from the spring's crop of horror pictures. Werewolves are not as eerie as vampires but they are faster, more ferocious and make uglier noises. A sprig of bat-thorn, as seasoned cinemaddicts are well aware, will keep a vampire outdoors. For werewolves, bat-thorn is as innocuous as the parsley on a mashed potato and the only flower that has any effect at all is the "mariphasa," which blooms by moonlight in a valley in Tibet. Taken in small doses...
...Told) Gibbs, Dame Rachel Crowdy of the League of Nations élite antinarcotic squad, Editor-Historian J. Alfred Spender, Lancashire Industrialist Sir Kenneth Lee, Dean Harold Cooke Gutheridge, Law Professor at Cambridge University and Sir Thomas Allen, chief of the Socialist Co-operative Insurance Society, a thorn in British munitions makers' sides...
...counsel to AAA he was also a thorn in the paw of sturdy George Peek, his boss. Mr. Peek protested to Secretary Wallace. In vain, for Counsel Frank had Felix Frankfurter's approval and the support of Dr. Tugwell. So Mr. Peek, instead of using his legal counselor, hired his own lawyer out of his own pocket. But Thorn Frank was too pointed for his flesh. The time came when Mr. Peek gave Mr. Wallace the choice of accepting his own resignation or Frank's. With the advice of Dr. Tugwell and the consent of the President...
...serves, Potomac Electric Power Co. deserves the handsome compliment lately paid it by the New York State Power Authority. That body called it "an outstanding case of successful private operation of a public utility." Before it subscribed to the Washington Plan in 1924, Potomac Electric was a constant thorn in the side of Congressional utility baiters, who very nearly succeeded in passing a bill to dam the Potomac River above Washington and sell public power to public servants. They even gained the support of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover...
Also-Ran of the Year was California's Upton Sinclair who for a time threatened to steal the spotlight of U. S. politics from Franklin Roosevelt and ended by being a thorn in the great Roosevelt's political side...