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...headlines printed in a dozen representative papers between mid-August and mid-November, 1942-a period in which the good news of North Africa was balanced by grim news from other fronts. He found 1,918 of the headlines optimistic (U.S. FLEET ROUTS JAPS), only 703 pessimistic (MEATLESS DAYS LOOM) and 605 neutral (CONVOY STORY TOLD...
...Dubliners are proud to have a Nobel prizewinner living among them.† But what especially appeals to the Irish is Schrödinger's study of Gaelic, Irish music and Celtic design, his hobby of making tiny doll-house furniture with textiles woven on a midget Irish loom-and, above all, his preference for a professorship at the Dublin Advanced Studies Institute to one at Oxford...
...reported one of the few neutral observers who have been allowed to leave Germany since disaster began to loom in Russia. Other reports last week from the same source...
...Reich? Moscow said that the Germans were rushing up reserves and new equipment to stop the Russians. Berlin talked of "elastic German defenses leading to further withdrawals." Perhaps the Germans were withdrawing under duress. Perhaps the Russians were pursuing more than attacking but wanted to make their gains loom as large as possible. Perhaps the Germans' "further withdrawals" may eventually take them out of Russia. If so, these circumstances explained in part the speed of the Red Army's offensive...
...Britain cannot resume her oldtime trade position which originated in the 18th Century with the steam engine and the power loom. "India does not want Britain's cheap cotton goods, even if Lancashire cotton operatives are willing to accept very low wages; but it will offer them high wages if they are prepared to make and send out wireless sets instead...