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...ruddy man with a direct gaze, a quick smile, and a surprising air of authority and command-now has an almost evangelistic attitude about his success. He discusses himself in the third person-as "Hoppy" or "this character"-and seems to feel that he has retapped the same deep vein of American character which made the Old West, and that it is both his fate and his duty to strengthen the fiber of U.S. youth...
...excess profits tax had not caught profiteers: "Only one out of every six corporations that earned any income paid an excess profits tax . . . No statistician will ever figure out how many corporations escaped E.P.T. by the simple device of expensing the excess." In the same vein, television's Dr. Allen B. Du Mont, chairman of the National Conference of Growth Companies, warned: "I resent the threat of my Government taking legislative action that will stigmatize [our] profits . . . under a completely false label ... If this fictional . . . legislation goes through I should feel that it would be my duty to myself...
...fact that this man is a modern sharp businessman incarnate doesn't illustrate the timelessness of the breed, as the author would no doubt tell you. It illustrates the fact that waugh is mining a narrow vein, and the same old vein, at that...
...vein of compromise, the failure to carry anger" for very long, the tendency to become too clever for wrath, weakens him when he is compared with Swift. Compared with Voltaire's, his imagination is drier, lacks picture and lacks nature too. A kind of middle-class gentility preserved him from the great disgusts, the unspeakable horrors which greater imaginations could grasp. The prose is, however, a superb vehicle for the pamphleteer and any page of it is a model of the art of conducting unfair arguments. He was a highly original artist and the art lay in the transmuting...
...electric heart reviver, developed by Drs. John C. Callaghan and Wilfred G. Bigelow of the University of Toronto. An electrode is inserted through a vein to within an inch of the heart's pace-setting node. If the heart has stopped, electric pulses set it beating again; if it is faltering, they make it beat more regularly. Used so far on animals, the "pacemaker" is ready for human tests...