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...blasé Washington, OSRD is regarded almost with awe. Significantly, this is less because of its scientific accomplishments than because of its smooth operation. OSRD is one of the few executive agencies that in four turbulent years has had no internal quarrels, no tiffs with Congress, no reorganization; its original line-up of top men is still intact. Of course, OSRD, being virtually a military secret, is also virtually invisible. But it is not completely invisible; and much of the credit for its immunity from attack has been due to OSRD's able, self-effacing boss, Vannevar Bush...
...Contrary to prevailing psychiatric opinion, there is no particular type of alcoholic personality. Some are "decadent drinkers" -blasé heirs of rundown families; others are "impassioned and discordant drinkers," who are torn by conflicting emotions and "drink to forget." Others are just stupid, or just sociable
Booth acted in most of Shakespeare's dramas as well as others like "The Fool's Revenge," "Brutus," by John Howard Payne, and "Ruy Blas...
...blasé reporters, covering New York City's three suicides a day is among the most unpleasant of routine assignments. Last week, however, when John William Warde decided to commit suicide in his own good time (see p. 24), reporters were fascinated, newspaper offices took on the kind of tension common in the cinema city room, rare in fact...
...resuscitate small industries laid low by Depression, the Government sponsors a "cooperative finance" bill. It is bitterly opposed by an evil capitalist, George Sartos (Sidney Blackmer), who fears that his big canneries will surfer. He sends his blasé lawyer. Jim Blake (Henry Wilcoxon), to lobby against the bill, mean while dallies with Blake's wife (Evelyn Brent). Blake quashes the bill, goes fishing in a small town where he meets Charlotte Brown (Betty Furness), owner of a small cannery whose bankruptcy is also bankrupting the town. Suddenly seeing how wrong he has been and how tired...