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...year's most minatory realities. But their reflection in books fell somewhat short of the total original. Among the most provocative were: Henry A. Wallace's Sixty Million Jobs, the Secretary of Commerce's pat prescription for the more abundant life, 1945-style; Charles G. Bolté's The New Veteran (what war has made of the uniformed American and what he hopes to make of himself and others hope to make of him in peace); Up Front, soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin's grimly amusing picturization (with sardonic matching text) of the fact that heroes...
Grey, sad-eyed Major General Leslie R. Groves, who supervised development of the atomic bomb, has a symbolic shoulder patch: a question mark with a star, an atom, and a bolt of lightning. Last week when he appeared before the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee, the emphasis was on the question mark...
Asked what the vestry of St. James' would do about the Bishop's bolt from the blue, Senior Warden Edmund Pendleton Rogers said: "I certainly think the vestry wouldn't go against Bishop Manning." Vestryman-elect Elliott Roosevelt (who had not asked to be a vestryman) said nothing...
Everything is tinged a deep blue down here, also, because Yale's Captain Paul Walker, All-America end, guards Bill Schuler and Bolt Elwell, and center Marty Dwyer are also on the bench with injuries. Dwyer is out for the season; the others are doubtful...
Some bored Broadwayites take amphetamine sulfate (benzedrine, the popular stay-awake drug) along with barbiturates, to get an effect called "a bolt and a jolt." It lays a man out, then snaps him to. The antithesis of the barbiturates, benzedrine has a stimulating effect (much like ephedrine or like the body's own adrenaline). The Army sometimes used benzedrine to keep flyers awake on long missions...