Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note, under National Affairs [TIME, Aug. 12], that our recent Congress has allocated $30 million to buy automobiles for amputees. Swell, I certainly am in accord with the idea. What I would like to know is, isn't that a rather excessive amount? Figuring $1,600 to a car, it would mean . . . that there are 18,750 amputees to receive cars. Are there that many amputees...
Last week, he sent an impenitent note to the U.S. referring to the five unarmed U.S. fliers his planes had shot down and killed over Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 2). Tito claimed that U.S. air forces had violated Yugoslav sovereignty 32 times in one week. The State Department replied with a stiff, 3,000-word note which added up to a simple: "Not so." Most Americans began to realize that Tito, long billed as the paladin of Yugoslav democracy, was no democrat, and that he bore watching. What they did not know about him would fill several police archives, and perhaps...
...report outlined the uselessness of all direct and indirect defenses against atom bombs, but added a comforting note: "War with this weapon will not be completely unendurable in a country adequately prepared and strong enough to withstand the first onslaught. The length of the war would certainly be increased by adequate dispersion of great industrial areas and the construction of subterranean factories. . . . We can expect war to continue until . . . the will to resist is finally broken...
...dramatic rights. In Princeton, N.J., the mayor asked all citizens to read the piece. Knopf planned to publish it as a book. A radio chain wanted Paul Robeson, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Katharine Cornell to take turns reading the 53-page article on the air. Only one dissenting note was heard: a reader in Brooklyn sent back his copy, saying he had read enough about the atom bomb. He was dismissed as crotchety...
...movie is no match for the story that inspired it, but it is an exceptionally suspenseful, crisp and lively melodrama, distinguished by shrewd casting and playing, plenty of harsh action, and an extra edge of low-life authenticity. Odd literary note: the Hemingway dialogue, well presented in the film, becomes as strangely formalized on the sound track as heroic couplets...