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...least. His statistic-crammed, 804-page book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948), was published by a medical publishing house (W. B. Saunders Co.) and cost $6.50, but it shot up on the bestseller list with the aid of free publicity and loud denunciations. The weightiest denunciations came from religious and moral leaders, who pointed out that Kinsey's examination of men's sex life altogether denied the existence of any moral factor whatever in sexual relations...
Hollywood will wait until March to award its Oscars for the movies' brightest achievements of 1949, but last week critical kibitzers everywhere had loosed their own showers of laurels. Two of the weightiest forums reached major agreement on one picture: Italian Director Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief won the National Board of Review's blessing as the year's best film, and the vote of the New York Film Critics as the best foreign-language movie...
...weightiest brickbat had been the charge that Alcoa had blocked the disposal of surplus Government aluminum plants. Alcoa had refused, said SPAdministrator W. Stuart Symington, to license its patents on its process of converting low-grade bauxite into alumina (which is in turn smelted down to aluminum). This had blocked SPA's deal to lease the Hurricane Creek plant (which operates on low-grade bauxite) and Jones Mills aluminum plant to the Reynolds Metals Co. (TIME, Dec. 31). Alcoa's frail, grey-haired vice president, I. W. Wilson, had indignantly denied the charges. He did not stop there...
...Harvard report, is a society of separate groups-isolated, divided, thinking and acting in terms of their special interests-just when the basic unity of free men is the world's crying need. Few of the recent educational studies, of which Harvard's is perhaps the weightiest and most comprehensive, have had a more provocative thesis...
Adventure in Adversity. Then from Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch came the weightiest warning of all. In a letter to Jimmy Byrnes, Mr. Baruch whacked WPB as well as Congress for delay in putting into effect the Baruch demobilization plan (TIME, Feb. 28). Said the letter: "The nation is still months away from being prepared to meet the great adjustments that will come on X-day when one of our enemies is defeated...