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Quiet, well-dressed Thomas Sovereign Gates, 16th President of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, welcomed students at the beginning of the new college year. As quoted by the New York Times, he offered his charges a ripe, fallacious enthymeme. Said he: "Twice isolationism has failed and now we must ask ourselves whether it will save us a third time...
...press conference the President was stiff, unsmiling. The morning papers had the text of an acrid exchange of letters between Mr. Roosevelt and his ex-Food Administrator, Chester Davis (TIME, July 5). The afternoons were ripe with the brand-new main bout between Vice President Wallace and Jesse Jones. One newshawk asked: Who was to blame for such bickering...
...fruit and vegetables to be dried must be picked when they are just ripe and dried at once, before they begin to lose their freshness and flavor. Before they are put in the dehydrator they are cleaned, peeled and cut in small pieces; vegetables are blanched with steam, fruits blanched or sulfured with fumes from a sulfur candle. They lie in the dehydrator for seven to 20 hours (tomatoes and pears take longest) at a drying temperature of about 145°F., finally emerge a tenth of their original size and are stored in a cool, dark place in moisture...
...whites nervously held their Sunday picnics under the trees. They had reason for nerves: rumors of race trouble poisoned the June air, the same rumors that have stirred the city for months. As the sweltering thousands jammed the bridge to the mainland on the way home, they were ripe for explosion...
...worth seeing-its great excerpts from the past are tributes to directors of genius and to a nation which, for a while, gave them a chance to work as cinema talents have seldom been permitted to work. Even in mangled form, such scenes as the silver blaze of ripe wheat and sunflowers full of struggling men, crazed horses and black explosions (in Director Alexander Dovzhenko's Shors) are still able to make any perceptive U.S. filmgoer who has seen only the best advertised native films wonder, seriously, whether he has ever seen a real moving picture before. These Russian...