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Standing beneath the stern stone faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt looming from South Dakota's Mt. Rushmore, Wendell Willkie last week asked his fellow U.S. citizens some pregnant questions: "Are you engaged in delusive and wish ful thinking that the war will end shortly, when we have not yet even entered Eu rope and have reconquered only one of the multitude of islands in the South Pacific? "Are you one of those who understands the destructive forces of inflation, yet joins pressure groups whose demands, if met, mean inflation inevitably? "Are you one of those...
...Adams family of Massachusetts . . . owns a priceless draft of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson in his own hand. Recently Archibald MacLeish wrote, asking if he could borrow it for display in the Library of Congress. . . . He got no reply. So he wrote again, saying he would be glad to send an armed guard for it. Still no reply. MacLeish wrote a third time, saying he would not only send an armed squadron but would insure the document for $100,000. This likewise went unanswered. MacLeish gave up. . . . [Then] he received a penny postcard. It advised him that...
...Dixon, for the umpteenth time, was telling some 4,000,000 readers a typical tarradiddle. Actually the Adams papers are owned and managed by the Adams Manuscript Trust. MacLeish negotiated for the loan of the Declaration through the Massachusetts Historical Society. It is in John Adams' hand, not Jefferson's. It was insured for $5,000, taken to Washington by Julian Boyd, Princeton University librarian, accompanied by a Library of Congress guard. There was no correspondence between MacLeish and the Adams family. There was no penny postcard, no $25 insurance-in fact, until Dixon made one, no story...
...THOMAS JEFFERSON-Hendrik Willem Van Loon-Dodd, Mead ($2.50); The present generation, says Author Van Loon (Van Loon's Geography-TIME, Sept. 12, 1932; The Arts-TIME, Oct. 4, 1937), should have object lessons in the lives of "nice, comfortable, decent, human heroes with nobility in their souls." Thomas Jefferson is such a lesson-106 pages of amiable discourse. Only a general outline is given of Jefferson as statesman, and the book is likely to go down best with youth. Illustrations in color and line-plus-wash by the author...
...Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Major Howard A. Rusk, now head of the Army Air Forces' reconditioning program, laid out the schooling with courses in chemical warfare, camouflage, radio, model aircraft building, mathematics and a special course for illiterate soldiers. At Dale Mabry Field in Florida, convalescents' courses range from identification of Japanese air craft to Arctic warfare. Officers, their wives, Red Cross workers and college professors lecture on such subjects as "Our Latin American Neighbors" and "How to Keep in Fighting Trim in Africa." The Army has made the happy discovery that such work not only makes better...