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...many flunked it. As profits vanished, so did the pay-as-you-go pensions. Even the long-standing railroad plans faltered and had to be taken over by the Government.* When thousands of elderly workers finally realized the chilling fact that they would probably never find jobs again, a spate of fuzzy-brained solutions sprang up, e.g., the Townsend Plan, Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. (End Poverty in California). It was partially as a counterattack to them that federal Social Security-handled by the Government and paid for by both the employer & employee-was born...
Lewisohn, now a professor of Comparative Literature at Brandeis University, is the author of several novels and many critical works. His latest book was "Goethe: The Story of a Man," which was published last spring among the spate of volumes issued to commemorate the bicentenary of the German genius' birth...
...Much, Too Soon? In the U.S., there was a temporary spate of bargains in British goods. Many department stores reduced their British goods, bought at old pound prices, as much as 25% to clear them out in preparation for lower prices. But many of the new prices would not be anywhere near that low, and some would not change at all. Scotch distillers, who were already selling as much whiskey to the U.S. as they could make (3,000,000 cases a year), promptly upped their export prices 30% to cancel out the entire slash in the pound. Many another...
...hold a Procession of the Madonna del Carmine; they have added to it an additional celebration called the Festa de Nojantri (The Feast of Us Others). Together the two occasions are good for at least two weeks of sports, drinking, feasting, beauty and wine-tippling contests, and a lively spate of knife fights...
...except for a few sickly sketches in the Hawthorne manner but without the Hawthorne skill, James, wrote few ghost stories until he was 48. Then he burst out with a spate of them. Editor Leon Edel speculates that this middle-aged absorption in the supernatural helped James compensate for the critical and popular rejection of his later novels and dismally unsuccessful plays ; in the ghostly stories, James could work off his resentments, regrets and anxieties...