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Since V-J day, demobilization machinery had restored to civilian life almost half again as many men as anyone had figured possible. At that headlong rate of discharge, said General Ike, we would have soon "run out of Army...
...Liberal Tradition (TIME, Dec. 3) and Norman Cousins' Modern Man Is Obsolete. Professor Orton's book sought to trace the decomposition of liberalism through the loss of its spiritual content. Author Cousins' 59-page essay is written with a kind of urgency less eloquent than headlong. When the atom bomb vaporized Hiroshima, he says, it rendered obsolete "every aspect of man's activities, from machines to morals, from physics to philosophy, from politics to poetry." If man does not wish to become extinct as well as obsolete, he must do something at once. What he must...
...Come & Get Me." Headlong Admiral Halsey had another ambition. When the fleet got back to respectable strength and the Jap radio still tauntingly asked "Where is Halsey?" he had exclaimed: "I'd like to send a signal giving my latitude & longitude, and dare 'em to come and get me. But Nimitz won't let me." Last week, Fleet Admiral Nimitz still omitted to mention the latitude & longitude, and named only a small part of the strength of Task Force 38. But it was a fair and fearful sample...
Last week the U.S. plunged headlong into a season of Gershwin such as no composer has ever had before. It premised to outdin by far the boom of Mozart (aided & abetted by the phonograph companies) four years ago on the 150th anniversary of his death, and the 1941 Tin Pan Alley reglorification of Tchaikovsky which finally led to a tune called Everybody Makes Money but Tchaikovsky...
...began to look less as if the economy would smash itself headlong into a cliff -more as if it were going to run into a series of unexpected, nasty potholes...