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...books were W. L. White's report on the crew of a doomed Flying Fortress, Queens Die Proudly ($2.50); The Battle Is the Pay-Off ($2), by Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, ex-editor of New York City's leftist PM; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ($2), Captain Ted Lawson's report (written by Journalist Bob Considine) on the Doolittle raid; Eve Curie's North African Journey Among Warriors ($3.50); Commando Lieut. Colonel Robert Henrique's The Voice of the Trumpet ($2); Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8 ($2) and Battle for the Solomons ($2); John Hersey...
...Lindbergh case), national political conventions, revolutions (in Cuba), war. Last week, in a 234-page book called Where's Sammy? (Random House; $2.50), he told the story of his life. (The book was really written by International News Service's Bob Considine, who also "edited" Captain Ted Lawson's recent Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo...
Although Direct Credits seems to have largely gone the way of Ham & Eggs and other Utopias, a lot of people have had lessons in Lawson's economics. Fundamentals: abolish the gold standard, interest, "alien" financiers, and give everybody state credit secured by hope. Money would "have no value at all ... merely act as a measure . . . the quantity of it issued will not affect its purchasing power...
Students and Secrets. Lawson is not going around worrying his busy head about students for his Des Moines university. If no others show up, he figures on drawing from the 100,000 officers of the Benefactor Foundation. Foundation board members, incidentally, are secret. Explains Lawson: they often shift. Apparently Lawson does too. His home is nowhere more definite than "near Ann Arbor" or in a Detroit suburb-Ferndale or Royal Oak; his Detroit office staff is expert at evasion...
...Foundation and what keeps it ticking, Lawson says it is a nonprofit organization which gets its funds by selling his lucubrations. Improbable as that may seem, the Direct Credits Society's rating is no joke to Dun & Bradstreet. On that score at least, Des Moines had nothing to lose. Said one practical businessman last week: "If he's got money to spend, let him spend it here...