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...first step was taken last spring, after the U.S. State Department had called in short-wave broadcasters to arrange maximum world reception for a speech by President Roosevelt (TIME, May 26). The industry saw the drift, hired a liaison man in the person of Stanley P. Richardson, old A.P. correspondent, onetime secretary to Ambassador Joseph E. Davies in Russia and Belgium. Through Stan Richardson the broadcasters learned what the Government wanted, and vice versa. What the Government wanted, it soon moved...
Some competent geologists admit the plausibility of the continental drift theory, which holds that all the continents were once a single big land mass, "Angaea," surrounded by water. Angaea was presumably broken up and dispersed by 1) the centrifugal force of the planet's spinning, 2) the gravitational pull of sun and moon. The breakup is supposed to have tilted the earth's axis to its present screwy angle...
Favorite quarrel among geologists is whether or not the continents are still drifting. One school holds that Greenland and Scotland are 60 feet farther apart every year, that the distance between Paris and Washington increases a foot a year. Others insist that it will take many more years of astronomical measurement and scientific study of latitude and longitude to prove any drift...
...forested wilderness slips a renowned English big-game hunter (Walter Pidgeon). At the edge of a ravine he shrouds himself in shrubbery, peers across and spots his quarry. With meticulous care he fits a telescopic sight to his handsome sporting rifle, sets it for 550 yards, notes the wind drift, draws a cautious bead, and smiles a hunter's smile. Caught full in the sight is the left breast of the world's most wary and unstalkable animal: Adolf Hitler...
...each of which was put there with evident care. It attends to its business with the strict energy a good boxer would use in cutting down a bigger man. Its business: "To follow these books through their implications . . . to assess them in relations to one another and to the drift of our literature since, and, so far as possible, to evaluate them in accordance with the enduring requirements for great art." One of its five subjects inevitably emerges as the greatest writer the U.S. has yet produced. Matthiessen does not pick him in so many words, but a reader...