Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of machines and employment has long been a favorite topic of satirists. In A Modest Proposal Swift similarly suggested that poor Irish mothers be permitted to sell their year-old offspring for 10 shillings. The babies could then be slaughtered, sold as edible meat. This would limit excessive population, furnish a new source of food supply. Clarence Day's Animals in a Machine Age advocated training squirrels to operate textile bobbins, raccoons to run railways. While they worked it would be in the employer's best interest to keep them healthy and fat; when business slackened...
American Forum of the Air (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Topic: "Is There Too Much Propaganda in Movies...
Adventures in Science (Sat. 4 p.m., CBS). Topic: "Animals Have Housing Problems...
Since no body has ever been found, the question of Hitler's death is still a topic that haunts historians. One of these two new books gives an apparently authentic description of several plots on Hitler's life; the other tries to piece together the details of his death. Both deserve considerable credence. Trevor-Roper's book, the heart of which has already appeared in LIFE, is the report of the official British historian. Gisevius, a German, was rescued from Germany by the OSS, which thus, to some extent, vouches...
Robert Ulich, professor of Education, is scheduled to discuss the general topic of liberty, with emphasis on the responsibilities that will accompany the new independent status of the former "diamond of the British crown...