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Iwo Jima's greatest asset is leathery, lithe John Wayne. His relaxed acting of a sleepy-eyed, two-fisted he-man (6 ft. 4 in.) has made him a pillar of credibility in many an unlikely blood & thunder epic. Broken in like a good saddle, in 150 pictures over...
Almost any topnotch businessman could have qualified for the big title and the $65,000-a-year salary just by getting along with The Boss. But among candidates for the presidency of Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. that one qualification was rare indeed. After cross-grained old Sewell...
Another promising uranium region is the Khamar-Daban Range near Lake Baikal, possibly extending to the Aldan goldfields. It was known in 1914, and has been explored intermittently ever since. Even in the Ukraine, close to Russia's oldest industrial centers, there are excellent indications of uranium. In 1940...
Harried Capital. As brisk, top-of-the-mind journalism, The Grand Design is fun. Dos Passos has fixed his sights on New Deal Washington, located its telltale landmarks: harried officials, their minds cross-grained with idealism and opportunism; ascetic lunches, reflecting the prevalence of ulcers; gaps of hollow loneliness between...
Science's sharpest eye is the electron microscope. It sees with a fine-grained beam of electrons instead of coarse-grained light. Last week the Electron Microscope Society of America met in Philadelphia to talk about a few little things they had seen: