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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to United Nations World (not officially connected with U.N.), the question was asked a year ago of Andrei Gromyko by a "top-ranking" U.S. businessman. Gromyko's reply pictured Stalin as deeply hurt because the U.S. had cut off Lend-Lease after war's end. But Stalin was ready to be friends again if the U.S. 1) abandoned Britain and signed a treaty with Russia reaffirming the Yalta and Potsdam deals, 2) agreed to return all of Germany to four-power control (i.e., a Soviet veto), 3) granted "generous" reparations to Russia, 4) resumed normal trade with...
Nightmarish Question. From the north came word of new difficulties. In Tientsin, the Communists cooked up a retroactive "income tax" for the last half of 1948. The tax bore little relation to income, was based instead on a firm's "past reputation and business attitude." There was also the nightmarish question of exit visas. No one had been refused a visa to date, but as more & more businessmen gave up in disgust and prepared to go home, the Communists set up increasing complications. Samples: applicants for exit visas now had to advertise their intention of leaving China...
Because of radio's slump in billings, and the punishing cost of keeping television rolling, Schenley had picked a good moment to pop the question. As Variety noted last week, radio's scramble for new income had begun with giveaway shows, progressed through "deodorants, medical books, mail-order selling and questionable products" until today "the lid is off.. . . and practically . . . anything goes...
From Washington last week some 800 special recordings were hustled by air to radio stations throughout the nation. They bore messages from more than half the members of Congress to their constituents; some were five-minute talks, others were 15-minute question & answer platters. Most were concerned with the congressional news of the week. Local stations broadcast the discs as "a public service ... in the hope that listeners will gain a better understanding of the serious problems confronting our legislators...
Sometimes in the course of a lecture, Conant grows excited about a point, paces about his platform restlessly. But he will stop for any hand that is raised, answer any question. After class he never rushes away, but chats or answers questions for as long as his students wish. "When he says 'Come around and see me,' " said one student, "he really means it- though I imagine he has plenty of other things to do." For Conant himself, such professorial demands are a pleasure. "Anybody who enjoys teaching," he says, "enjoys returning to teaching...