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Since the war's beginning no week has passed without scarehead rumors and wishful guesses as to the state of the world's oil supply. "Experts" proved alternately that Germany's oil reserves could not support a month of Blitzkrieg, that her synthetic production could keep her going indefinitely...
Under the scarehead Has 'Polio' Hit the Yankees?, Editor Powers demanded: "Has the mysterious 'polio' germ which felled Lou Gehrig also struck his former teammates, turning a once great team into a floundering non-contender? According to overwhelming opinion of the medical profession, poliomyelitis, similar to infantile paralysis, is communicable. The Yanks were exposed to it at its most acute stage. They played ball with the afflicted Gehrig, dressed and undressed in the locker room with him, traveled, played cards and ate with him. Isn't it possible some of them also became infected...
These figures looked better than did some of the scarehead arithmetic which Congress batted around last week (most popular scandal: that the Army had only four anti-aircraft guns). How appallingly short of effective preparedness they fell, Franklin Roosevelt soon showed...
With World War II it was surer than shellfire that somebody would brush the dust off this old scarehead. A small new company brought the title up to date as Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, tacked it to a film about the horrors of concentration camps. The picture might have been spurlos versenkt itself had not worried Director Irwin Esmond-of N. Y. State's Education Department (Motion Picture Division) called it "inhuman, sacrilegious and tending to incite to crime." New York censors promptly banned it, almost as quickly reversed their ban after the title was changed to Beasts...
...carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils at West Philadelphia High decided Miss Burchett had gone too far, walked out of her classes. Shooed by policemen, the students went back. But next day, deluged...