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Victor Hugo may have called Fabre the "Homer of the Insects," but Fabre was not so much a Homer as a St. Paul. The latter dug into the Old Testament to base his conclusions on revelation. Fabre . . . drew from the insect world conclusions which have not only never been explained but which have been ignored. To him there was revelation in nature...
Surely, it is at least as much to the credit of Writer Ardrey as Producer Berman and Director Minelli that the picture "stoutly refused to spice up the sin or gloss over the grimness of Emma's life . . ." If writers were not such forgotten men in Hollywood [you might have] a few more good pictures . . . to list as Current & Choice...
Dubinsky and the I.L.G.W.U. returned to A.F.L. pretty much on their own terms (TIME, June 17, 1940). They fought hard to clean out the racketeers in A.F.L. (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940) and advanced I.L.G.W.U.'s cause by such moves as: 1) getting Manhattan dress manufacturers to agree to penalize themselves for inefficiency, as defined by the union (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941); 2) persuading employers in the cloak & suit industry to pay $2 million a year into a workers' old-age insurance fund (TIME, June...
This week in Washington a worried little group of Britons and Canadians sat down to discuss with their U.S. opposite numbers what measures could be taken to save Britain from economic disaster (see INTERNATIONAL). To much of the U.S., sunny and prosperous in the late summer, the British crisis had an unreal look to it. Many a citizen could only take it on faith that behind the talk of the dollar gap, Britain's inadequate production and devaluation of the pound lay a dire threat to the stability of the Western World. In Washington, where men faced one another...
...episode pointed up the fact that the five-percent investigation was far from being a Teapot Dome. It was much lower-grade stuff-a record of bumbling, chiseling, and shabby wirepulling. Blundering, clownish Harry Vaughan was no credit to his uniform or his position, but nobody had proved him a crook. And with that, the investigating committee adjourned for at least a month...