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Last week E. P. Button & Co., Inc. hoped that it had the answer. Last year it received a manuscript from tall, red-blonde, good-looking Nancy Bruff, 29, wife of Manhattan investment broker Edwin Thurston Clarke. Titled The Manatee, it was a tale of the life and loves of a whaler. Immediately Button's sensed another Forever Amber...
Extremists of the air and push-button-war persuasion (like Major Alexander de Seversky) believed that all armies and navies had been made obsolete by air power. Chicago's Chancellor Robert Hutchins (see INTERNATIONAL) went Seversky one better: "The conventional reliances of the past-a large army, navy and air force-are obsolete. They find favor only in the nostalgic dreams of obsolescent generals and admirals...
...major collared me and yowled: "Button your jacket, soldier! Don't you know enough to salute?" Here was what I had been waiting for. What did I do? I buttoned my jacket. I saluted. I said "yessir," and told him I was a civilian. He said, "Humph...
These "intelligent bombs" are limited in scope and usefulness because they have no built-in source of power, are propelled only by the speed of the plane which launches them and by gravity. The rocket-propelled bomb for the push-button war was not yet ready for unveiling. There was nothing at Dayton as futuristic, even, as last year's German...
...other end of the scale of danger, General Electric's famed Dr. Irving Langmuir told a Senate committee that the Russians, in ten or 20 years, might be able to push a button and thereby destroy "not only our cities, but every man, woman and child in the United States...