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Foreign Newscaster Eric Sevareid told readers of the Saturday Review of Literature: "What annoys . . . the more intelligent soldiers are the broad suggestions that one particular spark plug, engine assembly or airframe is unbeatable, naturally better than the enemy's, and is winning the war. ... If advertising men had to sign their own stuff. . . . They would soon find out from their 'fan mail' what pleases and what outrages their public, especially those members of it now wearing uniforms or artificial legs...
...footnote to your excellent review of George Santayana's Persons and Places (TIME...
...Russians. Famed Professor Elie Metchnikoff was working on a similar serum back in 1900. ACS was used experimentally on animals until about 1936. Then it was tried out on human patients. To acquaint U.S. doctors with this work, the latest issue of the American Review of Soviet Medicine carries three articles on ACS, including one by Professor Bogomoletz. Some highlights...
...contract renegotiations, the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission have saved the Treasury $5.3 billion - of which $2.5 billion was actually returned to the Treasury, and the remainder saved for the taxpayers by reductions on future deliveries. The committee tax bill would throw all these cases open to court review, and would exempt many manufacturers from any renegotiation whatever. Henry Morgenthau had the solid backing of the Army & Navy...
Last spring Thomas Lamont and William Rose Benet filled the pages of The Saturday Review of Literature trying to define a capitalist. Last month, as an off shoot of that quarrel, Mr. Lamont contributed What a Capitalist Reads, a list of 14 books he had read during the summer, following his doctor's order to "take things more easily." The most topical, with Mr. Lamont's critical observations...