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Married. Ernest Hemingway, 47, burly, lately bearded (but not shorn) author of burly, hirsute, he-man prose; and Mary Welsh, 38, only woman correspondent with the R.A.F. in France before Dunkirk, later TIME Inc. correspondent in London; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Havana...
...Exchange's new campaign to keep lambs from being shorn got unexpectedly efficient cooperation from the market itself. The day the ads appeared, stock prices fell 5½ points, the sharpest break since the British debacle at Dunkirk in 1940. By midweek the Dow-Jones industrial average had slipped to 192.38, wiping out the gains of two months. Cause of the break: stock buyers who had been betting that settlement of the steel strike would bring inflationary price raises had changed their minds...
...More Dunkirks. Britain's Labor Government heard the moaning, promptly ordered up Churchillian propaganda guns to drown the noise. Prime Minister Attlee appointed a three-man Cabinet committee to plan the strategy for "the Battle of the Bread." Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams launched a new "Dig for Victory" campaign. Lord Aberconway, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, announced that his members would continue to resist the temptation to reconvert to flowers. Pert Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson appealed to Britons to carry on in "the Dunkirk spirit...
...slogans did not take. Britons have had Dunkirk. They were tired of battles, tired of digging for victory, tired of their drab, tasteless meals. They understood that Britain had to contribute food to the needy in Europe (1½ million tons since the end of the war), money to UNRRA ($320 millions already given, $320 millions more promised). They did not understand why the Treasury could not have allotted to dried eggs the $80 millions it allowed last year for purchase of Hollywood films. (Angry housewives cried: "We don't want Frank Sinatra. We want food.") Still less...
When the last boatload of valiant fugitives pushed off from the beach at Dunkirk, they left, among the prone bodies, the carcasses of horses, the discarded rifles and smashed cannons, a historical deposit undistinguishable from the sands that the tide washed in & out. It was the remains of the faded Victorian Age, whose shibboleths of family security, personal freedom, humanity, honor, greatness of purpose, faith, liberalism and the intangible called decency had so long stood between civilized society and those forces within itself which are always at war with it. At one stride, a new age, The Age of Violence...