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...Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers post signs and close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever a signal from an NBC television...
...takes courage to tall a research man that "science is not infinite. . . it is finite." There are not many scholars willing to forecast that all physical and chemical theory will be polished off "let us say about the year 2000." And experimental sociologists are likely to gulp when they hear that we will have built a final framework for biology psychology, and sociology and possibly "a stable society" 500 to 1000 years from...
Greedy Manhattan can gulp up a convention crowd as easily as a sword swallower taking an aspirin tablet. But last week, as 250,000 members of the American Legion poured in for their biggest national convention since Pearl Harbor, the Big City cleared for action. It moved everything movable out of hotel lobbies, boarded up plate-glass windows, ordered its cops to be especially paternal, and then, as resignedly as Cleveland, Miami or Omaha, waited for the first big bang...
Amid the usual platitudes of an A.S.N.E. convention, Harry Ashmore's candor was refreshing. Oveta Gulp Hobby, wartime head of the WAC and executive editor of the Houston Post, turned to another editor and murmured: "I wish we had him on our staff." There were others who felt the same way. Soon Ashmore got flattering job offers from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Atlanta Journal and the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette...
Their "bird's-eye view of the world," as the Houston Post's Oveta Gulp Hobby termed it, made varying impressions on the globe-girdlers. Thomas H. Beck, president of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., had left prophesying war in three years; he returned "more convinced than ever that it is true." Scripps-Howard's dapper Roy Wilson Howard saw "palms up everywhere around the world," found everyone fearful of "the menace of Communism...