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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Puzzled Berliners found it hard to see more dangerous military implications in track meets or weight lifting than in football or hockey. One explanation: the proscribed list names most sports popular in the old German mass physical-training program, the authorized list includes sports more widely played in the Anglo-American countries...
Louis B. Mayer of Hollywood was top man again (for the seventh consecutive year) on the Treasury's list of best paid citizens. His token of gratitude from Loew...
Robert Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, who believes that a right good education can be packed into less than a five-foot shelf, picked the world's "ten greatest books" for readers of the Chicago Daily News. His list: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics & Politics, Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, St. Augustine's City of God, Aquinas' Treatise on God & Treatise on Man, Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's Works, Pascal's Meditations, Tolstoy's War & Peace. He did not list the Bible...
Even the long list of resolutions, which NAMsters, like all conventioneering Americans, love to pass, had a realistic ring. Example: when N.A.M. called for balancing the federal budget, it sensibly asked that it be done, not at once, but by 1947-48 (when Treasury Secretary Vinson thinks it can be) and at a reasonably liberal figure of $20 billion...
Cass Timberlane, the story of a middle-aging Midwesterner's love for an intermittently erotic bobbysoxer, grossed Novelist Sinclair Lewis well over a quarter-million dollars before publication. Once on the stands, the novel soared into second place on the best-seller list, with 675,000 sales in ten weeks...