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...Town & Country Planning Minister Lewis Silkin also got his share of panning. Sly residents of the little hamlet of Stevenage, which had furiously opposed Silkin's plans to reconstruct the town along model Socialist lines (TIME, May 20), Russified their railroad station signs and signposts leading into the town to read "Silkingrad...
...will fiind in a College of 5500 men a least a handful who feel the same way about the Russians, or like back-handed Cribbage. It is in this group that he may lose his serial-number status for awhile, and, like the unhurried freshmen of 1846, reconstruct the world...
...Pearson's Wilde is a skillful synthesis of earlier books, amended by such facts and opinions as he was able to gather at firsthand. "No one," he declares, "[has] yet attempted to reconstruct Wilde as a great character.. . . Far too much attention [has] been paid to his tragic story and nothing like enough to his delightful personality. . . . My intention [is] to take him out of the fog of pathology into the light of comedy, to restore the true perspective of his career...
Battle-shocked Marine John Hodiak wakes up in a naval hospital suffering from amnesia, a fairly uncommon disease that appears to be as prevalent in Hollywood as the common cold. With little more than his discharge papers as a clue, Hodiak sets out to reconstruct his past. His unflagging curiosity gets him a few stiff rights to the jaw, raps on the head, unpleasant threats from sinister strangers and the love of pretty nightclub singer Nancy Guild (rhymes, her studio insists, with wild...
...more important that the Dutch concentrate on getting back their prewar share of the world's ocean trade, because that would bring foreign exchange to buy raw materials to reconstruct, expand. The U.S. loan negotiations had gone smoothly -$200,000,000, half of it from Washington, half from private U.S. banks. The interest rate, 2¼%, expressed U.S. confidence in The Netherlands' future...