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...skepticism, we think, is a healthy thing. It is that curious process of mind which makes a man blink at his environment, scratch his head, and try to figure out what is going on. There is considerable historical evidence that such a process may be a valuable one. Newton, for example, was raised in an environment which taught him that all objects had a proper place, and that if given a chance they would find that place. Newton watched a falling apple, skeptically refused to believe it was heading for its only true and rightful place, and developed a theory...
...countries. Air-raid signals will be the same in Canada and the U.S. Ambulances, fire engines, civil defense workers and doctors will travel freely from one country to another to render assistance after an enemy attack. Explained U.S. Civil Defense Boss Wadsworth: "We're going to scratch each other's backs in every way we know...
Testy old (71) Sir Thomas Beecham was in a mellow mood. With the 105 members of his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, he had cleared the brambles of the U.S.'s new Security Act without a scratch, while German and Italian musicians were having a time of it. (Said Sir Thomas blandly: "We're all British, thank God.") There was a deeper reason for his satisfaction: he was set to face U.S. audiences with an orchestra of his own-an enterprise "I have undertaken in a becoming spirit of modesty and humility." In fact, beamed Sir Thomas, he had come...
...said non-smoking Harry Truman, "I suppose I have had more smoke blown at me than any other man alive." The President pulled out an agenda penciled on a scratch pad and the conference began. Judging by the formal statement issued later and comments of the conferees, Truman confined the talk to subjects on which he and MacArthur already agreed-Korea, the Philippines, stabilizing the Far East. Particularly, the President wanted to hear the general's opinions on rebuilding Korea. According to one man in the room, the President referred to Formosa only by saying-as if in passing...
...Sachs of the Metropolitan Opera. Ever since he retired from the Met in 1943, Schorr had been itching to "start a Wagnerian tradition right here." When Halasz gave him the chance last July to go to work on Die Meistersinger, Schorr jumped at it. He had to start from scratch with the almost all-American cast, but that was exactly what he wanted...