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...period after the war when U.S. scientists were almost boycotting AEC laboratories. Part of their hostility was due to the very real hardships of wartime life at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge. Probably more important was a widespread feeling of revulsion. The scientists had worked with fanatical fervor to build an atom bomb for use against the Axis powers. They succeeded beyond their expectations, and many of them were haunted for years by the horror of their success. In the words of their leader, Robert Oppenheimer, wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, "they had known sin." At any rate...
With all the fervor of an oldtime revival meeting, 2,854 delegates to the 23rd annual convention of the Consumers Cooperative Association last week roared out the chorus of their Battle Hymn of Cooperation. The windburned farmers who lounged in red plush chairs in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium, munching apples, had plenty to sing about. In 23 years, C.C.A. has become the largest co-op of its kind in the U.S. It has assets of $52.2 million, 449,000 member families, and last year sold $74 million worth of merchandise-everything from tractors to toilet soap...
...poor showing seemed to portend a lack of fervor toward the states' rights cause. "We must not," Byrd warned, "be lulled into a sense of false security if there is some delay in taking up these [civil rights] bills," which he called a "devil's brew." As his tie, ablaze with a Stars & Bars design, fluttered in the wet breeze, Byrd charged Truman with trying to "usurp state police power" by setting up a special FBI for the South, and with following "the primrose path to socialism...
Verdi: La Traviata (Licia Albanese, soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor; Robert Merrill, baritone); the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 4 sides LP). The recording loses a little of the fervor of the splendid 1946 broadcast...
...beauty of the collection, says Karolik, is that "it expresses its own idiom, which is definitely American." The two pictures on the opposite page are clearly in that idiom. William Sharp's Railroad Jubilee on Boston Common, painted an even century ago, celebrates with Fourth of July fervor the westward march of the railroad empire builders. James Goodwyn Clonney's wooden Sleigh Ride has New England winter clarity and fireside warmth...