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...Hairy Ape (United Artists), as Eugene O'Neill conceived him, was a one-man proletariat, a crude yet powerful symbol. A huge, half-demented ship's stoker, he was obsessed with the proud idea that he made the ship go, and ready to beat the brains out of anyone who attempted to gainsay him. He lost his mind when a slumming, crisply clad, attractive woman passenger, appalled (and excited) by his looks and language, recoiled and called him "the filthy beast!" At large ashore, he treated society much as an articulate King Kong might, and wound up in the killing...
Revolutionary? The White Paper is a basic undertaking. It attacks problems fundamental to democracies. It is not a one-man brain wave: the British Treasury and Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin helped frame it. Last week, the Daily Herald (labor) called it a "revolutionary manifesto." But if it were, it could only be such because of its new assumptions of the responsibilities of democracies. Financially, it is conservative...
...have a fiührer complex about Mr. Hutchins . . . the best and wisest man I know. ... I think he is bored running [the] colossal war plant [which] the University of Chicago now is. ... So ... he decided to stage a one-man commando raid on the unguarded shrine of Let-Well-Enough-Alone. ... I believe that Mr. Hutchins is a menace to all the sacred precepts that have produced the glorious civilization we are now enjoying...
Right or Wrong. Many a Wall Streeter was quick to point out that this was not the whole picture. They argued that U.S. corporations are approaching a managerial crisis. In the main, they have become too big for one-man ownership or operation. They must shop outside for top-drawer talent, then offer a substantial inducement for that talent to stay put. With sky-high taxes, sky-high salaries alone are no such inducement. The best inducement is to give top men a chance to build up what Wall Street calls "an adequate capital position," i.e., make more money...
...Snifters." For such close searching, RID has mobile direction finders. It also has "snifters," portable, one-man sets for smelling out the very room in which a transmitter is hidden. Several other useful instruments have been improved and developed by Sterling's group...