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...three-man board will henceforth dispose of the estimated $100 billion in surplus war goods. Previously, Clayton had informed Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes that he would not be one of the three; he wanted to quit. His reason: Congress has turned surplus property disposal into a political grab bag. The U.S., he felt, should get what cash it can out of selling surpluses; it should not let them be parceled out among Government agencies by a political board with divided authority...
...such richly colorful material, woven into a narrative that is never schematic, and yet never a mere miscellaneous grab bag of historical information, is Van Wyck Brooks's book constructed. Its individual word-portraits-of Alexander Wilson, the dour ornithologist and bird-painter, of Davy Crockett, teller of tall backwoods tales, who thought they made a book "jump out of the press like a new dollar from a mint-hopper," of Fenimore Cooper, whose father gave him 23 farms in New York State when the future novelist was expelled from Yale-are equal to Brooks's best...
...side he composed popular tunes. After eleven successful years in vaudeville, Wynn appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1914. The Passing Show of 1916 made him a star. Writing the book, lyrics and music and starring in the Ed Wynn Carnival, The Perfect Fool, and The Grab Bag (1919-1925) made him a millionaire. Thereafter he played in seven more musical shows, all hits, made three so-so movies, and in 1932 became Texaco's "Fire Chief...
...Mary Ritter Beard got their first taste of industrialism together in Chicago, New York and London around the turn of the century. In and near the Beard and Ritter homes at Knightstown and Indianapolis, Ind., there had been no poverty, no slums, no violent strikes; the grapple and grab of business shocked the young couple into questions. In Chicago, with Clarence Darrow and Eugene Debs, they sought answers at the famed forum of Jane Addams' Hull House. In London they continued the quest, helped set up a workingman's college (Ruskin) at Oxford. Later, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald...
...delighted. Last week he watched U.S. infantrymen moving through barrage smoke west of Saint-Lô. He forgot caution, barely noticed a wave of Marauders coming in low behind him as someone yelled: "Watch out, their bombs are falling short." In the moment-too-long he waited to grab his camera before jumping for a ditch, a bomb fragment got him. He was the 18th U.S. newsman to be killed in World...