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Hero Erik Gorin quits his instructorship at a Midwestern college in disgust at university politics. He takes a better paying job with a machine-tool company, where he buries his ethics and tries to wiggle into a managerial position. But Erik's big pitch is a big flop; his employer outmaneuvers him. So he signs up with the Government as a research physicist, helps split the atom and make the bomb possible. In postwar Washington (and still panting after the big money 5, he is about to team up with malefactors of great wealth who want to kidnap atomic...
...satire on World War I veterans, who had pressed Congress for bonuses, the Veterans of Future Wars soon had 60,000 members. The official salute: an outstretched arm, itching palm up. The platform: bonuses now, while we're still here to use them. Founder (and National Commander) Lewis Gorin Jr. and Treasurer Thomas Riggs Jr. served overseas as officers in World...
Last week Princeton Graduate Lewis Jefferson Gorin Jr., founder, first & only commander of the Veterans of Future Wars, was Captain Lewis Jefferson Gorin Jr. in command of an artillery company at Camp Chaffee, Ark. From North Africa, Master Sergeant Thomas Riggs Jr., onetime vice commander of the V.F.W., wrote to his parents after Bizerte...
...other Princeton undergraduates who helped Gorin and Riggs start the V.F.W., one was crippled in an auto accident and is exempt from military service, one is in an essential industry (steel). The remaining eight are in the Army, Navy or Marines...
...American groove with a smoky rendering of Blues in the Night ("From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow, etc."). It was a pretty good hour and it worked up to "I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag" sung by Igor Gorin. Transcribed, the whole thing went over on KGEI's short wave next morning early. Most homelike part of the program for MacArthur's men were the Kraft commercials, which the sponsors left unchanged. Sample...