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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the ten books Brinton has written, "The Anatomy of Revolution," published in 1938, is the most famous. His "United States and Britain," written four years ago, drew the wrath of the Chicago Tribune during its series on "Un-American international activities at Harvard...
Included in this writer's morning mail a few days ago was a postcard he had sent himself from Holland. This represented a momentary interest in the speed of the trans-Atlantic mails. On the back of the card was glossy photo graph of a neat white sloop knifing along a Dutch canal, with three well-starched citizens grinnning proudly on its deck...
...Sarnoff first got the idea for the respirator while watching an operation several years ago. In the operating room, the surgeon accidentally pinched the phrenic nerve and Dr. Sarnoff noticed that the diaphragm contracted...
Other troubles appeared. When Capt. John Crommelin, rated one of the best naval aviators in the business, tried to defend the Worth letter a few weeks ago "at the peril of my naval career," he was promptly moved lout of Washington to a job with the fleet. the white House announcement of atomic explosions in Russia, coupled with persistent rumors of 5000 mile-ranged rockets coming out of the Russian experimental stations on the Baltic, stimulated a drive in Congress for a bigger Air Force. With the present limited defense budget, naval officers fretfully equated this against smaller fleet...
After an introductory speech, Dr. Moreno picked two graduate students from the audience and put them through a brief impromptu act to demonstrate uses of the psychodramatic technique which he developed at Vienna 30 years ago. The point of the psychodrama, Moreno explained, is to create a situation in which the person can act spontaneously...