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...stream of refugees boiled and eddied out of Burma last week, the roads to India were littered with stiff bodies, lying on their backs, their hands clutching the air. These were the corpses of cholera victims. In Mandalay (population, 135,000) alone the dread disease attacked 4,000 people...
Hope rose last week in the breasts of NBC and CBS men who want FCC's dread regulations of the network business (TIME, Jan. 12) never to go into effect. A New York Federal Court, to which they had applied for an injunction against FCC, first shook the networks with a faintly acidulous refusal to take the case (on the ground that they were hollering before they were hurt). Then the court granted a stay on the regulations until May 1-by which time the U.S. Supreme Court will either hear the networks' appeals or the whole thing...
...longer be able to supply the pro Fascist publishers of these poison-sheets-with appropriate material for their columns, but such outside fodder is unnecessary. All that's needed is sympathy and admiration for an absolute government, hatred and contempt for democracy, a hysterical fear of Communism, a fanatical dread of "the Jewish octopus," a passionate antipathy toward Roosevelt or the British, or any combination of these elements. A large and responsive group of readers can easily be found. Unfortunately, the "unity" of the American people, a fourth of-July catchword which means exactly nothing can be sorely disarranged...
...talked back. Snapped Washington's Representative Martin F. Smith: "What object is there in making a Congressman look like an ignoramus and a crook?" Michigan's Representative Frank E. Hook hinted darkly that the Bundles for Congress movement was a Nazi plot. But most knew, with familiar dread, that this one issue might ruin them in their home district. A repeal movement grew...
These virtues have not earned Director Wood, now 58, an Academy award; neither have his pictures. But if a Hollywood executive were confronted with the dread fact of having to turn out at one try a Grade-A, sure-fire hit, he would almost inevitably turn to the tall, dignified, soft-spoken man who has been quietly making excellent pictures* for the last 26 years...