Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Less than an hour ago I walked out on a Willkie meeting in the Sylvan Forum at Holmdel, N. J., with a feeling of both shock and disappointment...
Redheaded Margie ("Poor Man's Garbo") Hart is a stripteaser who plays Manhattan's theatres and the Midwest burlesque houses. This week she gave 62-year-old Major General William N. Haskell, commander of the 27th Division, New York National Guard, a shock. Sent to the 27th were 50 autographed copies of Margie's "most vivacious" photograph, with the promise of 4,550 more as soon as prints were ready. Margie sent her mementos out of practically pure patriotism. She wanted them distributed among the 27th Division, which will soon go into training far from the Manhattan...
...clangorous army of Tin Pan Alleymen is long, lean, grey Songwriter Gene Buck, president of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers). ASCAP holds performing rights to a mighty volume of sound: 1,270,000 musical compositions. Last week in San Francisco, at the word from Generalissimo Buck, ASCAP shock troops made a vigorous sortie. Their enemy was Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), formed by radio chains. Sooner than sign contracts to pay bigger fees for ASCAP tunes after next Jan. 1, the networks vow to use music from BMI, which by then will control 10,000 numbers. Melodious and wonderful...
Cried Geoffrey Shakespeare, Under Secretary for the Dominions and Chairman of the Evacuation Board: "This deed will shock the world...
Operation on the Mind. Schizophrenia, the kind of insanity characterized by withdrawal into a dream world, is the most widespread mental disease in the U. S. In recent years convulsions induced by insulin, metrazol, azoman and electric shock have improved many schizophrenics. Last week Dr. Edward Adam ("Streck") Strecker, a U. of Pa. psychiatric bigwig, described a new brain operation for schizophrenia. It is called pre-frontal leucotomy, involves drilling a small hole in the temple, inserting a narrow, flat-bladed instrument with which a fan-shaped cut is made in the brain lobes...