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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This group listened to some 200 witnesses, including psychiatrists, scientists, soldiers, students, teachers, youth leaders, then drew up a hair-raising preview of World War III as a basis for their recommendations. In the preview: atom-bombing planes flying at supersonic speed; chemical and bacteriological warfare; destruction laid down overnight that would equal the destruction in Germany after three and a half years of saturation bombing...
...them sought to hear in Wallace's alternately flat and strident voice the bland tones of Franklin Roosevelt, to recover, in Wallace's fumbling gestures, the touch of a vanished hand. Most of them were vaguely troubled about such timely problems as the Bomb, World War III, Russia, economic collapse. All were groping for answers and willing to listen to anybody who could offer one and Henry seemed to have an answer-of a sort-ready for anything...
Henry H. Hilton, III, Box 84, Bedford Road, Lincoln, Mass., a graduate of Middlesex School, Concord, Mass...
Cried Colorado's Republican Congressman J. Edgar Chenoweth: "I should think that you who are trying to get us into World War III would have the decency to wait until we get back the bodies of the 300,000 boys killed in World War II." Boomed Democratic Minority Leader Sam Rayburn: "God help us, God help this world, if we do not accept our responsibility to help countries who do not want to be smothered by Communism...
Also Pulitzered: New York Times Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, for distinguished correspondence (from Russia last year); Williams College President James Phinney Baxter III, for Scientists Against Time (history). The best biography, decided the judges, was The Autobiography of William Allen White (TIME, March 18, 1946), whose author died in 1944, at 75. One significant sign of the times: the prize for distinguished work as a reporter went to the New York World-Telegram's single-minded Frederick Woltman, who keeps a close and watchful eye on left-wing activities; he won the citation for his periodic pieces...