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Psychiatrists missed a fat chance years ago, when a neurotic little house painter held customers in Vienna's cheap restaurants spellbound as he harangued against the Jews. Last week psychiatrists at Manhattan's teeming Bellevue Hospital had what looked like a ghost of that earlier chance. Jew-baiting, Hitler-aping Naziphile Joseph ("Joe McNazi") McWilliams (TIME, Sept. 23) leader of the American Destiny Party, was 1) rolled flatter than a pfennig in last week's Congressional primaries in Yorkville (Germanic), 2) convicted of disorderly conduct for stirring up an anti-Semitic fracas, 3) committed by a judge...
...Poet Robert William Service's rugged North-Country ballad, The Cremation of Sam McGee; in Beiseker, Alberta. Oldster McGee returned to the Yukon two years ago, found his old two-room shack turned into a tearoom emblazoned with a macabre invitation: "Have a cup of tea with the ghost of Sam McGee...
Before the Los Angeles Advertising Club, Speaker Thomas Hambly Beck, president of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine) dramatically gave up the British ghost: "The bombing that is going on is so terrific that no people can withstand it. In my opinion, the British Empire will be finished by the end of this month...
Tale of Three Cities will trouble neither the ghost of Charles Dickens nor the minds of the hammock readers, its probable audience. It is quite harmless. But like most of the other "historical novels" whose chief distinction lies in the fact that they are too heavy to be shipped by parcel post, its interest lies mainly in suggesting the question: why anyone should have taken the trouble to write...
...spectre haunts the U. S.-the spectre of propaganda. Authors Harold Lavine (of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis) and James Wechsler have seen the ghost, and they believe it is going to get us into war if we don't watch out. They have been watching out for some time. Last fortnight they published their observations in War Propaganda and the United States, a slickly written, epigrammatic, rather loosely organized book, in which the authors, with a great show of objectivity, attempt to expose the efforts of European propagandists to embroil the U. S. in World Wars...