Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young officers arriving frustrated in Australia from the Battle of Java had the same idea in cruder form (fired by their first drinks in weeks). Hearing that a convoy was unloading at the Melbourne docks, they called for volunteers. Object: to throw the typewriters on the ships overboard before they could be landed. Luckily for them, but perhaps unluckily for fighting proficiency, they got no volunteers...
THOMAS JEFFERSON-Hendrik Willem Van Loon-Dodd, Mead ($2.50); The present generation, says Author Van Loon (Van Loon's Geography-TIME, Sept. 12, 1932; The Arts-TIME, Oct. 4, 1937), should have object lessons in the lives of "nice, comfortable, decent, human heroes with nobility in their souls." Thomas Jefferson is such a lesson-106 pages of amiable discourse. Only a general outline is given of Jefferson as statesman, and the book is likely to go down best with youth. Illustrations in color and line-plus-wash by the author...
...assist Hitler . . . The Rockefeller Foundation has made a number of grants." Thus last week, in a mood of irony, spoke Foundation President Raymond Baline Fosdick. Object of the grants: to develop the U.S. as a great mathematical center...
Unfortunately the lead piece, Henry Miller's "The Loveliest Inanimate Object in Existence," will confuse and discourage the uninitiate. Readers unaccustomed to Advocate vagaries will proclaim this fragment from "The Air Conditioned Nightmare" a new and more foolish form of word game, while an older audience will have new cause to regret the Advocate's inability to refuse the mediocre material contributed by the literary elite. Even Reed Pfeuffer's provocative illustration fails to justify the space consumed by the overly obvious gibberish it illustrates. Day Lee has retold the story about the boy and the B.B. gun without sufficient...
Franklin Roosevelt worked away on his timetable last week, trying to anticipate the future. His main object, like any citizen's trying to figure out a household budget, was not to be taken by surprise. Some of the important dates on his calendar of events ahead, ringed in red: > April 19: Anglo-American conference on refugees starts in Bermuda...