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...comment came from the Washington Post, which is more often pro-Roosevelt than not. The Post severely criticized the speech as "a cheap variety of political bushwhacking . . . at a moment when spiritual leadership of a high order is urgently needed. . . . It is doubtful whether the President's indispensability complex has ever been more boldly exhibited...
This week the 18th plan went through. In scope it was unprecedented. In operation it was smooth and apparently initially successful-a rare thing for the first job of such a complex kind. In the sky of Holland multicolored parachutes etched a pattern of future military history...
...complex problem of patents, whereby most cartels are forged, Berge is less precise. The antitrust division has no intention of a large-scale attack on the present patent laws. To help even up the tremendous advantage big business has over little business in research and invention, Berge has suggested a Government-financed bureau of invention whose discoveries would be available to all. But there is the bigger problem of the international exchange of patents-e.g., how can U.S. industry get the real benefits of foreign patents without trading their...
There follows a complex, legerdemainiac series of situations depicting the search for Gorgon's FATHER. The combined efforts of Barnaby, O'Malley and Atlas the Mental Giant are brought to bear. Gorgon père is finally discovered to be the nameless, galumphing coach hound of the local fire department. But that slobbering, fragrant beast has no vocabulary other than "Arf," is a parasitic icebox-crasher to boot. He refuses to move off the Baxter's porch rocker until frightened by the word "bath...
...Canadians' push on Falaise, in a sunlight-flooded barn, correspondents in France took the measure of Henry Crerar as a soldier. Wearing freshly shined boots and talking like a military-school professor, Crerar gave them a briefing which turned out to be a brilliant, complex, minutely detailed analysis of the coming operation. Said Crerar: "Tomorrow . . . may be another historic day in the military annals of Canada." The newsmen agreed that his briefing was an extraordinary performance. "That man," said one, "has a department store mind on a Napoleonic scale...