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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case any farmers missed the point, Harry Truman blamed the G.O.P. directly when the price of Illinois corn dropped from $2.29 to 96? a bushel in September. Ahead of and behind the President, Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan also roamed the Midwest, hammering home the same argument. Candidate Dewey, on the other hand, failed to give any specific assurances on the future of price supports. Besides, many farmers just liked the prosperity they had gained in Democratic years...
...Bucharest, Rumanians forgot for a moment the might of the Red army in the account of the latest U.S. super-super-super Flying Fortress. It was so huge that the pilot, hearing a noise behind him, had to dispatch a courier by motorcycle to locate the trouble. "Just a football game on the lower deck," came the report. Another ruckus. "A water polo match in the swimming pool." A terrific bang. "Now the boys are furious, sir," reported the messenger. "A Russian plane was trying to buzz us. It flew in through the window and crashed on the basketball court...
Trailing far behind were Chief Justice Martin Travieso, whose platform called for statehood, and Dr. Francisco M. Susoni, who had plumped for immediate independence of the U.S. Though virtually all Puerto Ricans wanted one or the other of these things, most had been convinced that Muñoz' moderate program of industrialization and economic development was a surer way of getting them...
Long-Legged Fish. Behind this round-robin anthropophagy, Dr. Wolff detects the outlines of a weird and dreadful religion. According to ancient legends, death and the fear of death ruled Easter Island. It was good to eat people, for into the eater then flowed the life of a "long-legged fish." Human sacrifices, piously (and frequently) performed on the tops of volcanoes, gave new life...
...really like Schoenberg's ear-hurting music-and certainly no one is whistling any of his tunes. Forty years ago, after he had written his popular, Wagnerish Transfigured Night (which Antony Tudor used successfully for his ballet Pillar of Fire), Schoenberg had put conventional, barbershop-type harmony far behind him, and plunged into a chromatic wonderland where all twelve tones in an octave are of equal value, and there is no longer any "key." It is a wonderland where few fellow composers have yet dared to take up residence-although just about every nation but Soviet Russia (where...