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...think that an atomic war will be just another war. This week such ostrich notions were rudely jolted. One World or None (McGraw-Hill; $1)' "a report on the full meaning of the atomic bomb" by 17 scientists (including five Nobel prizewinners), generals and pundits, gave a preview of World War III. One World or None is a calm, hair-raising warning of swiftly approaching disaster. Americans who would like to die a natural death can read it with profit...
...Washington last week, a U.S. mission, sent to Japan to study the action and effects of The Bomb, was still mulling over the evidence. Many facts remained secret, but those released gave the U.S. people a heart-stopping preview of atomic...
Eighteen years to the day after he had raised the flag at the dedication of Wright Field at Dayton, 74-year-old Orville Wright returned to the scene for a preview of the Army Air Forces Fair. Great changes had been wrought...
Britain's Tories got a horrid preview of Doomsday when the Labor Government moved to nationalize the Bank of England. Last week, as the nationalization bill was introduced into the House of Commons, Doomsday turned out to have a sterling silver lining...
...Novel. Was Cass Timberlane autobiographical-a preview of Novelist Lewis' apprehensions and hopes about the marriage of a middle-aged man to a young woman? Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as "a novel of husbands and wives," it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge Timberlane, of the Minnesota district court, and Virginia Marshland, draftsman and designer for the Fliegend Fancy Box and Pasteboard Toy Manufacturing Company...