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Readers who follow Eudora Welty's train across the Mississippi Delta will find that its last stop is cloud-cuckoo land-which was also the setting of Author Welty's previous books: A Curtain of Green (TIME, Nov. 24, 1941); The Wide Net (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943). In...
Communist Russia made no secret of its implacable hostility to religion, scarcely bothered to conceal its low regard for human life. Neither did Nazi Germany nor Fascist Italy, which made a mockery of their concordats with Rome. World War II by no means ended the totalitarian threat to Europe. The...
The rainbow sight is made by sandwiching a natural crystal or a synthetic sodium nitrate crystal between two layers of polarizing glass. Optical engineers of the Polaroid Corp., manufacturers of the sight, envision many uses for it. Camera fans have already found that it makes an excellent view finder.
Many a scientific cloud on the horizon promises, or threatens, to revolutionize postwar living. One is the "microwave." Microwaves lie in the largely uncharted area of the radio spectrum above the part now used for conventional sound and television broadcasting (upper limit: roughly 80 megacycles). Microwaves are used in radar...
Last month, by getting Eleanor Roosevelt to write an article for Confessions, the Brothers Fawcett reached respectability with a capital R. But big-name contributors are only incidental music to a magazine with so pat an editorial formula: 1) no heroine is ever extremely poor or rich, and no story...