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...World War II, rationing and price control, strictly enforced in Chicago, encouraged behind-the-barn slaughter throughout the farm belt. Once broken of the habit of shipping to Chicago, many farmers never went back. By 1954 there were 2,367 separate packing establishments in the U.S., nearly double the prewar number...
...popular heroes, now with no claim to fame save as Europe's best known and worst treated leper. One of a family prominent in education and government, Orano was a dashing cavalier who served as a colonial official in Africa, wrote novels (three of them made into prewar movies), had a bewildering succession of marital relationships, and once turned Moslem...
Sharing the Business. Father of the Japanese industry is Masaru Ibuka. 51, a prewar movie sound technician who in 1948 set up what is now the Sony Corp. to make tape recorders and other sound equipment. Hearing of the development of transistors at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Ibuka produced laboratory samples, brought them to the U.S. to arrange the first Japanese transistor-patent licensing agreement. While many U.S. electronics men concentrated on industrial and military uses of transistors. Ibuka went after the consumer market, started the Japanese fad for miniature radios, eventually attracted some 100 competitors into the field...
...Theodore J. Flicker; music by Tommy Wolf; lyrics by Fran Landesman) is a wry and indulgent spoof of the Beat Generation. The mood is mock-nihilistic. Instead of Waiting for Lefty, the hipsters of the '50s are waiting for Junkie (the dope peddler); in place of the prewar pacifism of Bury the Dead, the postwar passive-ists Dig the Bird (the late Saxophonist Charlie Parker). And, of course, boy meets girl...
...never expected to find himself, at 44, a key figure in the cold war's competition for prestige. He is and always has been, by inclination and intent, a "pure" scientist. His real interest is in cosmic rays. He started being curious about cosmic rays back in the prewar days when they were considered as wildly abstruse and impractical as a study of the mating habits of sea horses or the inner structure of a grasshopper's brain. But today he can tip back his head and look at the sky. Beyond its outermost blue are the world...