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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living U.S. alumni and alumnae (about 2% of the population) are influential out of proportion to their numbers. As a group they hold the best jobs, make the most money, live most comfortably. Last week their way of life was surveyed statistically for the first time on a national scale in a report (The U.S. College Graduate) by the Reader Research Department of TIME Inc. The survey sampled 12,728 graduates of 1,048 colleges and universities. Some findings: >By the time they are 40, three-quarters of male graduates are professionals or executives, less than 8% ordinary workers. >More...
...There is a serious lesson this generation of Americans is obliged to learn. It is that government of a whole nation by the people speaking directly-that is, town-meeting government on a nationwide scale -was never meant to be the American form of government and never can be good government. What the American government was designed to be is representative government-government by representatives elected by the people. . . . The opportunity and obligation of the people is to elect able representatives...
...British took the offensive on land, it could hardly take the form of a full-scale invasion-they have not now the equipment to tackle the Germans successfully on the Continent-but rather a series of raids at widely scattered points from Norway to Spain. The British remember well Sir Francis Drake's audacious dash into Cadiz the year before the Armada sailed. He destroyed 10,000 tons of enemy sail that day, and later bragged of "singeing the King of Spain's beard...
...Neanderthalers had no art. The first artists were the Cro-Magnon men, whose earliest culture-period is called the Aurignacian. The newfound cave at Montignac represents this glimmering dawn-culture on the vastest scale yet found. Its significance, says U.S. Prehistorian George Grant MacCurdy, is that the appearance of art "marks a distinct epoch in mental evolution." The Abbe Breuil calls the Montignac cave "the Sistine Chapel of Aurignacian...
That Syria was a rather jumboesque campaign was hardly General Jumbo Wilson's fault. He had to tread warily lest he inflame Arab sensibilities or drive Vichy further into the arms of the Axis. The Allies' hope that large-scale deserticras and native uprisings would quickly crack General Dentz's defense did not materialize. They had not reckoned that his seasoned regulars would fight no matter who gave the orders. On the British and Free French they had inflicted nearly 1,500 casualties...