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...Collar-studs" means collar-buttons. "Tin-openers" is British for can-openers. "Third Programme atmospherics" refers to static interfering with higher-browed broadcasts of the BBC. *Kant's view of the Ding ais sich (Thing-in-itself) may have been influenced by the fact that nothing whatever, not even marriage, ever happened to Immanuel Kant. He lived all his life in or near Königsburg; his habits were so regular that neighbors used to set their watches by his comings & goings...
Automaker Preston Tucker had known plenty of trouble, but none so serious as this. The Securities & Exchange Commission, which once before looked askance at the financial undercarriage of his snazzy, rear-engined automobile (TIME, July 7, 1947), was at him again. This time it took a dim view of his first annual report (deficit $5,651,208). The report, along with Tucker's stock registration statements, said SEC, "contained untrue statements of material facts and omitted to state material facts." SEC scrutinized everything from payments to officers to the very "nature of the business done and intended...
...pulpit at Manhattan's Calvary Church, Episcopal Rector Samuel M. Shoemaker said: "Many of us non-Roman Christians have great respect for the present Pope, and respect also some of the stringencies of the Roman system . . . But if there cannot even be conference, with a view to better understanding one another, where differences may be frankly aired and honestly considered, then we are forced to say that, by its own admission, the Roman Catholic communion is simply another totalitarianism demanding complete submission from everyone else as the only condition of fellowship...
Everybody was caught napping. With a view to helping small businessmen get a fair share of defense orders, the House Small Business Committee's Chairman Walter C. Ploeser had slipped in an amendment to the draft bill. Neither the committee's colleagues in the House & Senate, nor the White House, noted the real meaning of the amendment. Only after President Truman signed the draft bill last week did the fact come fully clear: Congress had unwittingly provided for the broadest draft of U.S. industry in peacetime history...
This pessimistic view of contemporary life is even further pointed up by the fact that the other writers in this book deliberately turn their backs on it. André Gide and Noel Devaulx hide their talented heads in reminiscences of life before World War I. Nature-Boys Jean Giono and André Chamson wallow in a woody dreamland of hefty peasants and prime wine. Only Jean Cassou gives an impression of both vitality and veracity. His macabre story is an up-to-date version of Romeo & Juliet, in which Juliet ("a nice, retiring person . . . the sort who hates being conspicuous...