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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this review is funny, so is "Horse Feathers", which dates back to the ginmill and the shin-length skirt. It's a picture about a co-ed college in what some people think were the good old days; but they weren't such hot days, and it's not such a hot movie, though a few Perelman gems stick out like well thumbs. For instance, the college is called "Huxley College." That's Perelman up to his old tricks again...
...once economy-minded Harry Byrd's shears might prove effective-though not nearly so drastically as he hoped. A study in the Labor Department's Monthly Labor Review last February conceded that war's end would be followed by "a brief period in which curtailment of federal activity will cause total Government employment and payrolls to fall substantially." But after this period, the study solemnly predicted, "the general upward trend in public employment and payrolls . . . may be expected to reappear...
...skyscrapers, quickening the pulse of the city. In the Navy Yard in Brooklyn lay the spanking new carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, ready for a presidential commissioning. Across Manhattan, in the brackish waters of the Hudson, an impressive fraction of the U.S. fleet rode at anchor, ready for a presidential review. There would be a parade for Harry Truman up Fifth Avenue, past the flags and the glittering shop windows. He would make a speech before hundreds of thousands on an open meadow in Central Park...
...under the pen name of William March. At 44 (in 1938) he quit business to give his full time to writing. Author of two successful novels (Company K, The Tallons), March still specializes in short stories, which have appeared in almost every kind of U.S. magazine from The Yale Review to Esquire. In Trial Balance, Storyteller March has selected 55 of his best: short, sharp, craftsmanlike tales, most of them about neurotic people...
This week, in a proper climax, plain Harry Truman will climb aboard the Missouri, eat lunch and review the 50 war ships moored off Manhattan. The day -Oct. 27 - is Navy Day, the birthday of the late Theodore Roosevelt, whode clared: "The Navy of the United States is the right arm of the United States. . . . Woe to our country if we permit that right arm to become palsied...