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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rich Response. In Chicago, Zoo Director Bean published an appeal for twelve live bedbugs to round out his collection of invertebrates, fortnight later found himself fighting off 1,000 sent by helpful U.S., Canadian and Mexican donors...
Norman Corwin, jack-of-all-radio, paused to set a few minds at ease as he flew off on a four-month round-the-world tour patterned on Wendell Willkie's 1942 flight. "Storm" indications between the U.S., Britain, and Russia, he announced, were "nothing serious." Armed with a recording device and set for interviews high & low, the winner of the "OneWorld" award (TIME, March 4) proposed to turn his trip to account by capturing "the ordinary qualities" of practically all kinds of people all over the world...
...Murphy as if they didn't recognize him. A two-thirds majority was needed for a strike. The vote had been 20 for a strike, 16 against. The Pirates rushed on field, beat the Giants 20-to-5. Bob Murphy's baseball union had lost the first round...
Died. Frank Case, 73, urbane proprietor-host of Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel, where the literati of the '20s (Woollcott, Benchley, etc., etc.) lunched at his famed Round Table, and where for four decades he matched wits with assorted writers and actors, afterwards chronicled their comings & goings in two volumes of anecdotes (Tales of a Wayward Inn, Do Not Disturb}; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Threat of Retaliation. Whether or not a world atomic agreement is reached, the authors round the globe. While some sciencetists think that an atomic-arms race is the most dreadful thing that could happen, The Absolute Weapon's text argues that it would be still more dreadful for only one nation to have bombs-for only then could they be used with impunity. "In the atomic age the threat of retaliation is probably the strongest single means of determent...