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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Who is your prodigiously presumptuous reader [TIME Letters, Feb. 18] so unlettered that he reports he was bored by your fine story on Craig Rice's important place in a highly significant field of letters? I suggest he read Having Wonderful Crime and then tell us honestly if he is still bored. I doubt that Craig Rice ever bored anybody. When we were both practically flunking a "journalism" course at San Diego State College, I can guarantee it was not because she was dull. In fact, I view with alarm your report that...
...successful was the U.S. air assault on German oil? The most flattering part of the answer had been given in the overall report of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (TIME, Nov. 5). But the full report of the Survey's oil experts, released only this week, added some critical qualifications...
...such ebullient claims as A.A.F. General Henry H. Arnold's 1943 statement: "We did it ... aiming our explosives with the care and accuracy of a marksman firing a rifle at a bull's-eye. ..." A typical 1944-45 score, in the coldly factual language of the new report: 3.5% hits in a factory area covering three and a half square miles (see chart...
...Said the report: "While it is true that lack of gasoline alone stalled the German war machine . . . there is considerable evidence that, had synthetic oil, rubber and chemicals been considered as a single target group, the same results could have been achieved more expeditiously...
Southern leftists too were throwing their weight around. A Communist-inspired "Battle Front Formation Convention" met in Seoul to denounce U.S. occupation measures. One speaker brought the house down with a report on World War II. Gist of the report: when Germany was near collapse in 1944, the U.S. jumped into the European war for spoils. After ineffectual skirmishes by U.S. troops on minor South Pacific islands, Russia staggered Japan with tremendous blows by the mighty Red Army...