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BLACK FOUNTAINS (374 pp.)-Oswald Wynd-Doubleday...
...Professor Toynbee, while avoiding the sins that beset Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West-"baffling immensity and enigmatic gloom"-had met the German philosopher's requirement for the writing of 20th Century history: Toynbee had found history Ptolemaic and left it Copernican. He had found historical thinking nation-centered, as before Copernicus astronomical thinking had been geocentric. The nation (Greece, Rome, Japan, the U.S.) was the common unit of history. Toynbee believed that not nations but civilizations were the "intelligible fields of study...
...square. (He also has a redoubtable reputation as a bridge and poker player.) What he lacked was aviation know-how. Some of the CAB veterans supplied that. Colonel Clarence M. Young, 57, CAB's technical expert and onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, is a top man. Oswald Ryan, 58, another Harvard lawyer and one of the original members of the board, is CAB's legalist, steady, if not brilliant. Harllee Branch, 67, a onetime Washington correspondent, was Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail under Jim Farley (his specialty: political chores). But Josh...
...Vancouver, police swooped down on the East End Printers and Publishers, seized canceled checks and other documents, arrested two printers: Oswald Thomas, plant owner, and Robert Bracken, ex-owner. The charge: perjury. Their firm, said police, had printed price lists for Vancouver's United Distillers of Canada Ltd., considered the largest independently owned distillery in Canada, makers of Harwood's. These prices had been submitted to OPA in the U.S. as those in effect in December 1941 or January 1942, the base period for price ceilings. Using them as a base, OPA had set the U.S. price...
...into his files, came out swinging with an updated version of a favorite theme: an attack on the royal family. In an article in the diminutive weekly Socialist Leader, he raised a pointed question: was the King involved in Mussolini's prewar financial support of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley? If so, "there is every reason why the House of Hanover should follow the House of Savoy into exile...