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Back in the days when citizens of the Eastern seaboard were stocking their atties with sand pails and water buckets, the U. S. Army was determinedly erecting a long, low, narrow group of buildings adjacent to their expanding Fort Devens. This clump was imaginatively tagged "Lovell General Hospital, North"--the "North" to distinguish it conveniently from a neighboring clump, Lovell General Hospital, South." Beyond a fresh coat of paint and a new, if inexplicable, numbering system, the exteriors of the erst-while hospital buildings haven't changed a whit since...
...long visit in 1904, he had been an expatriate for more than a quarter of a century. He had communed with Europe and had brought the art of the novel to a perfection probably unequaled since. The American Scene, his impressions of the U.S. (actually only the eastern seaboard) represents the Master at the height of his cultivation, endlessly receptive, endlessly scrupulous, endlessly amused...
...sight. Holand's theory is that Knutson detached members of his party to investigate. This was the band, according to Holand, that reached Minnesota-after a boat trip calculated to make even a Viking tremble. Assumes Holand: the searchers would first search the Atlantic seaboard north of Vinland, then keep on going; hence their route ran up the Atlantic coast into Hudson Bay, down Hudson Bay to the Nelson River, Lake Winnipeg and the Red River into Minnesota's lake country. There, while looking for an overland route back to Vinland, the party was attacked by Indians...
...gear journalese ("diabolical idealistic window-dressing to make cannon fodder out of the cream of their countries' youth," etc.), but certain of his assertions are perfectly plain. Among them: 1) the U.S. itself started the atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic showdown; 3) the U.S. has thus far shown little interest in making its democratic ways more attractive abroad to offset the appeal that Soviet Communism, with its racial equality and promise of economic gain, seems...
...down the railroad systems of the Eastern Seaboard, the same silence. Acres of freight cars, brooding herds of grimy locomotives stood in quiet rail yards at Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Jersey City. At dusk, signal lights glowed green along thousands of miles of rail. The tracks were clear-and empty...