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Behind the Headlines. That was how the story emerged in the headlines. The dry, unread manpower statistics are just as dramatic: last winter, when the shortage talk had barely begun, was the all-time peak employment period for nonagricultural labor; ever since then the trend has been down (see chart...
Fact & Figure. Because of these quotable insults, most of Henry Wallace's 28-page statement went largely unprinted or unread. But the rest of it actually constituted a chilling indictment of a public official...
...establishing the value of such books as De Forest's. More important than the change in taste is the current re-examination of U. S. literature represented in works like Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. That re-examination is burying many an unread bigwig, demonstrating that many a forgotten novelist has more to say to moderns. First discovery that is likely to prove popular, Miss Ravenel's Conversion should speed the search...
Strength already flowed back to him as he watched his Martini being mixed. The bartender slid the glass towards him, then drew it back and whistled between his teeth. "Say, you're a student, ain't you?" The question upset the proctor. He thought of the pile of unread books on his desk and nodded. "Too bad, too bad," the bartender commented sadly. "We can't serve drinks to students. Company rules, you know...
...future. They see science, rapid communication, the "prophylaxis of ideas" working for international good will faster than the forces of reaction can work against it. If, they suggest, reactionaries persist in running counter to the people's deep-seated desire for progress and peace, their newspapers will go unread, their movies will be shunned, their broadcasts unheard, their advertising ignored and, if they resort finally to force, their necks broken. Though pessimists may call this wishful thinking, readers will hope that this optimism is as well founded as was the pessimism of their predecessors 16 years...