Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With characteristic reluctance to make unseemly details public, Brooks Brothers' President Winthrop Holly Brooks, fourth of the line, would discuss neither the price nor the reason for selling. (Reportedly, President Brooks has never liked the clothing business.) Garfinckel's President Clarence G. Sheffield would say only that there will be no change in traditional Brooks Brothers policies...
Jumping Professors. Understandably, the astrologers were loath to discuss their boom. Said a Chicago seeress: "If I say anything about business, those professors will jump on us again." But they eagerly claimed that astrology ("the study of life's reactions to planetary vibrations") was a science that should be taught in U.S. colleges. Some stepped right up to write 1946's news stories in advance releases-a practice that was old in 1640, when William Lilly, the "English Merlin" (see cut) fascinated Parliament with his political predictions...
...friends discuss the possibilities of atomic energy...
...fact that most Americans did not discuss the bomb did not mean that they did not have their opinions about it. A great percentage of people interviewed by TIME correspondents in major and minor U.S. cities believed 1) that we'd better keep it away from the Russians, 2) that it was a terrible thing and we'd probably have been better off if it had never been invented, 3) that the Army, the Navy and the atomic scientists ought to know what they were doing with it and, if not, what could anybody else...
...accord was reached on the critical matter of exchange of raw materials and food between the U.S. and Russian zones, nor in establishing a unified currency, telephone and telegraph communications. Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, the Soviet negotiator, had scowlingly refused even to discuss the issue of removal of machinery from Korea...