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Many books end up in Hollywood. Last week, for a change, two books came out of Hollywood. Both carry identical counsel for the U. S. citizen on identical subjects: Defense, Democracy and World War II. America Is Worth Saving is a spiteful, wretchedly written tract by great, aging Theodore Dreiser (The Titan, An American Tragedy), who lives in Hollywood, lectures to California's women's clubs. The Remarkable Andrew might well be Dreiser's tract scripted into a novel by its author, Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo...
Dreiser's tract is largely an attack on this felonious isle, this seat of tyrants, this England. He is also so fearfully wrought up over the present state of the U. S. that America is Worth Saving reads like the definitive burlesque of Upton Sinclair. Like Trumbo, Dreiser is just a good guy trying to revive the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Last fall, during the Presidential campaign, he announced his support of Earl Browder and the Communist Party platform...
Last week a raw, chilling rain followed eddying snow on the flat frozen prairie north of Detroit. It fell on the just and the unjust, and also on a 113-acre tract between Eleven and Twelve Mile Roads. There the rain, sifting through the steel skeleton of a sprawling, one-story building, gathered like dew on the rough jackets of workmen, stiffened red hands that had to be warmed up before the glowing maws of smoking salamanders. The rain did not slow up the work, any more than the snow had: on & on went the chatter of pneumatic hammers...
...changing world, spent the better part of eight years as Secretary of Agriculture, keeping the death of U. S. cotton export markets a political secret. Only after he became Term III's Vice-Presidential candidate did he publicly confront the dilemma. That was in a book: his campaign tract The American Choice-(Reynal & Hitchcock; $1), which told the U. S. that it would either have to subsidize more domestic consumption of cotton, or move several million surplus cotton farmers off their land...
Milder allergies to foods, pollens, textiles, animal hairs, etc. are produced the same way. Food allergies are often acquired by digestive upsets which allow proteins to get into the blood instead of being broken down in the digestive tract. Some people are born with food allergies, acquired from proteins in the maternal blood during pregnancy...