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...traditional Fourth of July weather. Under hot, clear skies Harry Truman rolled south in a 17-car presidential motorcade along U.S. Highway 29, through the red Virginia farmland, past the old battleground of Bull Run. At every town, little flag-waving crowds gathered to watch him. Near Charlottesville, while 2,000 people assembled in front of the high-pillared porch of Thomas Jefferson's old hilltop home, Monticello, he delivered his Independence Day address (see col. 1). It was a happy, historical week...
Kracauer divides German film history into three main periods. The first (1918-24) was a period of fierce mental ferment; during those years, the German film attained its highest artistic maturity (Variety, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), and the screen was a battleground for most of the conflicting anxieties and desires of the German mind...
...third period began with the crash of 1929 and the return of chaos. The German mind-and the German screen-once more became a battleground. But most of the battling was equivocal, half-blind, halfhearted-or forbidden by censors. And none of it stopped Hitler...
Inevitably, the sound of World War II echoed loud through the year's biography and history, though marketwise publishers insisted that readers were sick & tired of the war. In nonfiction, the Civil War was still the favorite battleground of the antiquarians-and the prospective horrors of World War III was the stock in trade of most special pleaders, who now blatantly showed the name of the only potential enemy in sight, a practice not considered good manners at the start of the year. Only a few of 1946's substantial histories were wholly above the battle, among them...
...Senate forces of Barkley and Taft prepared yesterday to tear up the battleground of price control, the nine-man Harvard Committee to Save O.P.A. set the hour of noon tomorrow as the time for students in the University to put themselves on record in favor of effective price ceilings...