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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writers who award the Prix Femina found their task too grisly, seemed about ready to leave prize-giving to the menfolk. "Life in today's novel," said one of the judges in an interview, "is twisted to eroticism. For instance, in Le Jeu et I'Enjeu [a recent French literary success] there is a revolting story. Two rats-you heard me -two rats fall upon a bed where two people are preparing to make bought love. I find that most symbolic of current literature...
...directive, sent to McCloy by the State Department last month, did no more than to codify and sharpen U.S. policy as stated in the Occupation Statute for the West German Republic and the Allied High Commission Charter. It had served as a guide for the recent Acheson-Bevin-Schuman agreements at Paris (TIME, Nov. 21), reiterated the U.S. aim of making West Germany a peaceful, productive and democratic nation, closely "integrated" into the economic fabric of West Europe...
...promote this ambitious program, N.A.M. followed its recent policy of picking a small businessman as president. Its choice: handsome, athletic Claude Adams Putnam, 59, head of the 200-man Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N.H., who succeeds Salt Lake City's Paint-Maker Wallace F. Bennett in N.A.M.'s top elective post. Putnam got his start in business at 16 as a machine-shop apprentice, and joined Markem when it was founded in 1911. He soon became its top salesman, and in 1929, its president. Proud that his non-union company has never laid off a single...
...reviewing the "cold war" between the democratic countries and Russia, Kaltenborn saw victory for the democracies on two of three fronts. Communism is an ever-diminishing danger rather than a menace in the U.S. while Europe has shown a definite reaction against Communism in recent months, he said. The situation is Asia is still "undecided," he added...
Besides his radio and newspaper activities. Kaltenborn has written several books on world affairs. His most recent publications include "Europe New" and "World Peace Primer...