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...usually off-hand in his optimism over the nation's ability to meet its problems. In a dam-dedicating speech at Gilbertsville, Ky. (pop. 355), he said: "We are having our little troubles now-a few of them. They are not serious. Just a blow-up after a letdown from war. . . . We still have a few selfish men who think more of their own personal interests than they do of the public welfare. But you are not going to let them prevail. You are going to force everybody to get into harness and push and pull...
...disdaining all such fun & games, is betting that the letdown in listening to news won't last. Said CBS News Chief Paul White: "They'll listen again, and if they don't, God knows the war was fought for nothing...
...Great Letdown." From the forces came a full-throated roar of anger. Protests began to deluge M.P.s and party organizers. Wrote a sergeant from Germany: "This demob news shook the boys more than anything." Embittered Tommies, watching boatloads of G.I.s heading home each week, took to advertising in their home papers for jobs. The Government was likened to Ethelred the Unready (see cut). Stocky, quick-firing Garry Allighan, Labor M.P. for the blitzed Gravesend dock area, staggered out from under 2,000 demobilization letters a day to cry: "You must solve this-or have revolution. It's serious...
...early in 1944 because: 1) the discovery of penicillin as a VD cure made men careless about prophylaxis, ready to rush to service doctors for quick treatment: 2) the services stopped docking pay for days lost during venereal treatment, and as a result many hidden cases were revealed. The letdown of victory has merely speeded the trend. But while case rates go up. days lost from duty go down. In 1939 an average Army VD case lost 42 days. In 1945 he loses five days or less; 90% of gonorrhea cases, are fixed up in six to eight hours...
When the long-awaited news finally arrived, it was a big letdown. Sergei Prokofieff's monumental opera, War and Peace (promised by Stalin to the Metropolitan Opera after a Soviet premiere) had a concert run-through last week at the Moscow Conservatory. An audience of professional musicians, squirming through the sceneryless nine scenes, vigorously applauded the classic melodies, found the unwieldy Tolstoyan libretto tough going and concluded that the opera was far from finished...