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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago I was surprised to see a notice in the Berlin press that TIME would soon be on sale again in Germany. Later that evening I made my newsdealer swear to save TIME for me for the rest of my life. Today the familiar cover of TIME glowed from Berlin newsstands, and in a few hours all copies were sold out. In the subway I entered into conversation with perfect strangers simply because they carried a copy of TIME under an arm, or were reading it. It was as though we were old friends...
Technically speaking, there is only one building in the Village, since over 2 1-2 miles of corridor connects one extremity with another and a determined sort of person could get to every building without going outside save to cross the three streets that slash the development from north to south. Possibly to give the Villagers a sense of "belonging" the three streets are named Eliot, Dunster, and Lowell. The whole of the Village is contained within a looping road that is at once the perimeter and the only means of getting in or out; a gate, guarded...
Balance Sheet. The idea swept the country. At present there are nearly 1,700 districts, containing two-thirds of the nation's farms. In the growing season of 1947, 100,000,000 acres will be cultivated scientifically to save the soil...
...save time, V.E. and his wife (they have two sons) live only a few blocks from his office, in a small Park Avenue apartment cluttered with hunting prints, a 1,000-volume sporting library, piles of personal scrap books. He also has a 475-acre farm outside Ithaca, N.Y. He very seldom touches liquor, favors lemonade. His only vice is chain-smoking. To match his thinking, the cigarets are king-sized...
Charles Jackson's first novel, The Lost Weekend, was the story of five days in the life of a lost soul, Don Birnam, a confirmed and hopeless alcoholic unable to save himself or see any way to be saved. It was a study in acknowledged disorder. The Fall of Valor, Jackson's second book, is a study in the revelation of disorder. The story follows a conventionally successful man, John Grandin, through the crucial weeks of his life, when his long-growing sense that something is wrong gives way to the shock of realizing that...