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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also acted as a consultant to the War and Navy Departments and to the Burean of the Budget during the war. In the last capacity he was executive secretary of the committee on records of the War Administration. At present he is editor-in-chief of the Public Administration Review...
...American living in France since seven years, the most interesting fact in your review of Henry Miller's book about the States, An Air-Conditioned Nightmare [TIME, Dec. 24], is the lightly touched point that Author Miller left Europe as soon as the going grew hard in 1940. As he had been settled in Paris since ten years "to study vice," while he "worked at panhandling and slept on park benches," we wish only that he had stayed in Europe for five years more...
Report on Greece (MARCH OF TIME) provides a quick, sobering glance at the tragic face of modern Greece. A review of domestic problems and foreign pressures since the Italian invasion of 1940, the film offers no facile suggestions for the solution of either. The record of five long, lean years speaks eloquently for itself: desolation, inflation, civil war, Soviet imperial ambitions waiting behind the scenes, British imperial power parading the streets...
...your review of Lysenko's book, Heredity and its Variability [TIME, Feb. 11], you conclude: "If Lysenko's . . . methods [of stimulating organisms to new directions of growth] really work, the world has a powerful method of adapting plants and animals to the needs of man." It may be stated that methods like those of Lysenko have been tested for decades before his time by friends and foes and neutrals and their verdict has been: "They don't work!" Lysenko has not caused a revolution but has rather gone back to the prescientific era in genetics. Lysenko...
What was probably the last word belonged to the New Yorker's Wolcott Gibbs, whose review had not yet appeared. Said he: "I'd say offhand that there are only about three newspaper reviewers here who are competent to write about anything, but it is absolutely absurd to make an issue out of this play, which has no merit whatsoever...