Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is British Novelist J. B. Priestley, who drew a harsh picture of New York (in which all too many New Yorkers could recognize themselves): "The lonely heart of man cannot come home there. It [New York] is filled with people who, after three quick drinks, begin to dream of somewhere else ... [It is] the expression perhaps of some titanic strain in the soul of modern man, making him feel uneasy when he remembers the gods...
...atmosphere with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced as the Arch Fiend. But when the early morning papers dub it a potential hit, the hatchets are put away and the harps begin to twang again...
...Navy, says Author Bradley, only admitted defeat when they found that they could not begin to "cool" a ship's exterior by a complete removal, by sandblasting, of every inch of paint, plus the planing off of a half-centimeter of all deck plank. And, to clinch matters, the Radiological Monitors found that even when radioactivity was not registering on ordinary instruments there might still be "free plutonium" present, the "most insidious poison known...
Selective, Service will begin tapping Harvard men next week for induction in June...
Screenings and physical examinations for the state's 550-man draft quota are slated to begin Wednesday, December 1, with selectees to be inducted in January. The Cambridge draft board has announced that of 50 men expected to come up for examinations, about 20 will be from the University. If accepted they will probably be deferred until June...