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...have worked 70 hours a week (when I had a job) and for as little as 90? an hour, in an effort to make my income equal my prewar earnings. I am furnished, free, a clumsy artificial leg with none of the postwar improvements, which will not be replaced as long as I can hobble around with...
...from the military). The Senate committees pretty much agreed with that reduction. Administration spokesmen protested, but Georgia's George expressed the sentiments of a large part of the Senate: "We ought to cut out economic aid in Europe . . . Those countries already are up to about 144% of their prewar production capacity. If they can't stand on their own feet now, there is no use kidding ourselves into thinking they will do it later...
...testified, Barnes was one of "a few" newsmen admitted to the inner sanctum of the Communist Party convention. (Barnes, now an editor with the publishing house of Simon & Schuster, denied all implications that he was under Communist influence.) Ex-Soviet General Alexander Barmine, an officer in Russia's prewar G-2 and now head of the Voice of America's Russian-language broadcasts, testified that Red intelligence regarded Barnes and Owen Lattimore...
...English go in for repulsive nicknames like this. It seems to have resulted from parents naming all their children Nigel and Diana, which, God knows, is reason enough.) Ten minutes later, the entire group is clustered around the bar gloomily tossing down whiskies and longing for the good old prewar days when bars stayed open till midnight...
...self-pity and the patronizing pity of others, to inner strength and security. Without the unpretty toughness and raw emotional power of The Men, the film moves slickly on a sentimental journey past soap-opera landmarks. Veteran Kennedy must choose between living supinely on a sinecure provided by his prewar fiancee's wealthy father, or striking out independently with the help of a selfless girl (Peggy Dow) who loves him. The choice, and the plot maneuverings leading up to it, are never in doubt...