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...what he calls a fluid, classless society, Conant has become a vigorous essayist. It got him into one jam with the Corporation. Conant's "Wanted: American Radicals," in the May 1943 Atlantic Monthly, "urged the need of the American radical not because I wish to give a blanket endorsement to his views, but because I see the necessity of reinvigorating a neglected aspect of our . . . development." Conant said that "the kernel of [this] radical philosophy" would be a "demand to confiscate [by constitutional methods] all property once a generation...
...debacle, the public has been aware that this was no ordinary strike. No one seemed to be talking about company profits or dictatorial union practices. It seemed that the seamen wanted more money and the companies were willing enough to give it to them, but that Washington, the wettest blanket at a sweet party, had said a lond and determined...
...Convert. Various tatters in the blanket of secrecy reveal Josip Broz as an Austro-Hungarian Army private during World War I. Destiny, in the anonymous guise of a War Office bureaucrat, sent him to the eastern front. There, he was captured by (or deserted to) the Russians, was packed off to Siberia. In 1917, Tito entered the Red Army, fought in the Russian civil war, was chosen for special training as a Communist foreign agent, became indelibly indoctrinated with the century's great new faith. During his novitiate, he found time to marry a Russian girl who bore...
...other pen which will do so many amazing, extraordinary things . . . brand cattle, spotweld, etch letters in solid concrete, repel insects or strange men, cut cabs in two pieces, burn holes in any blanket, melt locks (throw away your keys), remove superfluous hair (no smelly, sticky wax or paste!), and call police cars on short wave (if the police don't call you first!). It may even write, for all we know! . . . And you have only nine more years to wait...
...same elsewhere in Nurnberg. Said a British secretary quartered at the U.S. "Girls' Town" (quarters for clerks and stenographers et al.): "When I get up I usually find two American lieutenants shaving in the girls' bathroom." With warmer weather, blanket outings have become more frequent. Only officers can take jeeps from the motor pools after hours, and they drive off with their Fraulein to secluded spots...