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December 1962

Phobias and Other Phoolishness

Fearless Fosdick hear this: dentist, barber, airplane, elevator and work desk hold no terrors for this sober head

DORLAND'S Medical Dictionary defines a phobia as "Any persistent insane dread of fear"--and I was usually well loaded with phobias during the time I was also loaded with booze. Looking back on it soberly, a reborn man taking an inventory of his former self, I can see that many of these dreads and fears were not only insane but inane. Some, in fact, were downright silly.

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