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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During their 11 months as hosts to U.N., New Yorkers had witnessed some exotic spectacles. There was the turbaned Moslem strolling unconcernedly down Fifth Avenue; the sight of Russia's Molotov, convoyed by a squad of bulky, grim-visaged MVD agents; the group of berobed delegates gulping down şişkebap in a midtown restaurant. The U.N. meetings themselves, at Lake Success, were almost as good as the Dodgers at Ebbets Field...
After dinner on Thanksgiving Day a year ago, Jimmy Byrnes sat alone in his Washington office, abysmally gloomy. The world had peace, but the word sounded like a bad joke. The London meeting of the Foreign Ministers had failed; not even the beginning of a peace treaty was in sight; there were even fears that Russia would not attend the first U.N. Assembly in London...
...work last week descended from the committee level to the subcommittees. It was not lost from the sight of a vigilant and prolix press, but it was in that tentative, amorphous state where the detailed picture of it on one day would be out of focus the next...
What, More Millions? News of the World has now set its cap for 12,000,000 readers, though it guesses-perhaps accurately-that it already reaches all the scandal-lovers in sight. To find 5,000,000 more subscribers, it intends to add more news of politics and world affairs, fields where its coverage is now good but short. Already it has dipped a bashful toe into Conservative politics. Shy, wealthy Philip Gordon Dunn, 41, its Canadian-born chairman and a major shareholder, would probably go Tory all the way if he were not afraid of offending his Socialist readers...
...examined lots of death rays, which inventors claimed could melt rocks, kill animals at great distances. None met his specifications. Some were fakes; their inventors fled as soon as Dr. Murray hove in sight. Best performer: a heat-projecting gadget which, its inventor claimed, cooked a canary (in Spain) at 30 feet...