Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Americans who remember the Prohibition Era would rather not. But to Norman Hume Anthony, onetime editor of Judge, Life and Ballyhoo, ft is the time when Americans were happiest. His autobiography, just published, How to Grow Old Disgracefully (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3) is a flippant, bawdy, superficial account of phenomenal success and complete comedown in the tricky business of trying to make magazine readers laugh. It is also the most unashamed backward look at the National Bender in a long time...
...poor man's Tommy Manville") but even now he salvages some self-respect from the fact that he loved only one woman at a time. For his speakeasy pals he maintains a sturdy, juvenile affection. They were uniformly great tosspots and great guys. How to Grow Old Disgracefully is full of their gags and practical jokes. The common denominator of these friendships may well have been at a level higher than gin, but Anthony provides no clue to it. He says: "People had fun in speakeasies. Today's nightclubs are morgues...
...Confucius say no grasses grow...
Before the war only about 13,000,000 tons of wheat had to be imported by countries that could not grow all they needed. But the war and natural disasters sent import needs skyrocketing. Europe, which imported less than 4,000,000 tons of wheat a year before the war, needed 15,400,000 tons this crop year from the 1945 harvest to the 1946. Asia and Africa, which normally imported only 2,400,000 tons, have needed almost 11,000,000 tons. All in all, needy countries came begging for 32,000,000 tons of wheat this year instead...
Today she still gets 1,000 letters a week. Her postwar mail is loaded with missives from faithless war wives, bewildered veterans, bobby-soxers who want to know how to grow up. Everybody gets an answer; in the case of suicidal correspondents it goes by airmail. Often it is the same answer ("Men are a selfish lot," etc.) that worked half a century ago. But the questions have changed, from "Should I help a gentleman on with his coat?" to "Is it all right for me to spend a weekend in Atlanta with a boy friend...