Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strange contrast to the scenes in the big receiving shed in Munsan. There, returning U.N. soldiers found it hard to remember what freedom was like. They laughed and cried, swallowed great quantities of ice cream, milk and boiled steaks, but asked timidly whether they could write more than one letter home...
When old Richard Wagner was directing his music festivals at Bayreuth, he shut up the Festspielhaus every third season-which was only reasonable for a man who wanted time to write more operas. Under no such pressure, the composer's grandsons, Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner,* last week shattered another hallowed Bayreuth custom, opened their third Wagner Festival in three years with a new production of Lohengrin...
When Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet sat down 17 years ago to write Biological Aspects of Infectious Disease, there was an abundance of knowledge about the nature of most of mankind's ills, but a dearth of specific remedies. Now, thanks to the sulfas and antibiotics, the picture is so different that Burnet, rewriting his book completely as The Natural History of Infectious Disease (Cambridge University Press; $4.50) can make the revolutionary statement: "It is not too much to say that at the present time no acute infection occurring in a previously healthy individual will result in his death...
...recent years, RFC has been so heavily criticized for bad loans and influence peddlers that there were few tears, even among bureaucrats, at its prospective death. Furthermore, with the economy booming and money plentiful, there was no further need for it. But in its prime, RFC helped write some of the most important chapters in U.S. economic history. Set up by Herbert Hoover in 1932, RFC handled about $50 billion in funds, by the reckoning of its longtime (1932-45) mentor, Texas Banker Jesse Jones. Started with a capital of $500 million borrowed from the Treasury, it has since paid...
...Letter has an immense influence . . . The picture he presents of American life, manners and politics is, essentially, misleading. It does not matter that in the columns of the Manchester Guardian, Mr. Cooke should demonstrate mathematically that Mr. Stevenson must win the presidential election of 1952 . . . or that he should write a book in which Mr. Hiss is presented (except in the last few pages) as a kind of hero of our time. There are other newspapers and other books. On the air, however, there are not other voices ... I want others to be heard...