Word: collier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Breathe Only Out. In London, Dr. H.O.J. Collier suggested that in view of the increasing hazards of radiation, modern health rules be distilled to three essentials: i) stop seeing the doctor and thus avoid X rays: 2) drink no milk, thus limit intake of cesium-137 (a radioactive isotope) j 3) stay indoors to be shielded from cosmic rays...
...Whitman College, became a reporter in Seattle in 1932, worked nine years for the United Press, roved for the Chicago Daily News in World War II, covering the battle of Britain and the fall of Rome. Later he worked for CBS in Berlin and London and for Collier's in Europe and the Mideast. He was head of radio and TV news for CBS when the then un-merged A.F.L. lured him back to the microphone in 1954. Since then, Morgan has sometimes differed with A.F.L.-C.I.O. policy, e.g., he thinks that the U.S. should recognize Red China...
However, with the exception of such proven masters of the sharply written, razor-edged tale as John Collier, Roald Dahl, and Saki, few of Hitchcock's authors can both write well and create an intriguing situation or plot. The book's first few selections are rather dull cases in point, and make an unfortunate beginning for an anthology. The editor's idea of arranging authors in reverse alphabetical order is perhaps commendably simple, but hardly functional for anyone who reads more than one story at a time. In this case the arrangement leads to a most uninviting first fifty pages...
...less praise for its idea (a night in a waxwork chamber of horrors), but a great deal for its ending, which is led up to gently and tidily. "The Lady On The Grey," an echo of Circe, is a minor but still notable example by a skillful author, John Collier, who is one of the most reliably bizarre writers alive...
...Collier's verbal monkeyshines are so adroit as to make the reader forget the paradox that while man may be like a monkey, a monkey is not like a man. It is all prime fun among the primates, and calls to mind the verse of a British poet in which an ape reflects on the Darwinian version of the Fall...