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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a knowledgeable source in Europe, who has a fairly high batting average for reliability, TIME last week received this report...
...interior, life goes on as if the Dutch would never come again. Recently a highly respected Dutch educator, P. J. Koets, shocked Holland with a realistic report of stability and progress in the nationalist area. Wrote Koets: "The picture in general is of a society consolidating itself, and not in the course of dissolution. . . . What struck me was the quiet and peacefulness. The farmer is busy on the farm, the women planting or harvesting, the people gathered at the market place, peddlers with heavy loads along the roads, the dogtrot of the carrier with his load on his back...
Last week U.S. scientists felt better when they read a report by Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the OSRD (Office of Scientific Research and Development) and president of the Carnegie Institution. Said Bush: "It is now recognized all over the world that the application of science is central in national security." But he warned that basic, not-yet-applied sciences should not be neglected. "As a people we are strongly philotechnical [gadget-loving] ; we have always excelled in the applied. We have not turned with the same success to more philosophical matters. In many branches of science, we have...
...When Reporter Sam Boal got to London, he realized that "the people of America don't know a damn thing about the people of England." So the correspondent of Manhattan's tabloid, laborite Post decided to report the British through British eyes. The eyes he chose were those of his widowed, Cockney charlady, old (65), worked-bowed Mrs. Hunkle. This week, readers of Boal's twice-a-week column were seeing the U.S. through those same Cockney eyes. Boal had brought Mrs. Hunkle back with him, took her along on a Hollywood vacation where everything from elaborate...
...weeks, when Mrs. Hunkle has cooed her fill at Hollywood (and Boal has recovered from a London auto accident), he will return with her to England, continue to report the British through the eyes of a charlady he "dreamed up one morning when I had a hangover and didn't want to write anything heavy...