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...browned-out, hamstrung nation, TIME [May 13] eruditely announces that cities are running short of power, plants are shutting down, things are in a hell of a state. Your leading article . . . quotes an ominous John L. Lewis and two wrathful Senators, contains not a word about specific issues or facts involved...
...told his press conference that "discipline has tightened up considerably," the streams of unsavory stories from U.S.-occupied Europe remained at flood. Births in the U.S. zone were 30% illegitimate. Rowdy G.I. drunkenness forced German families to stay home after dark whenever a liquor ration was issued. Green troops, hell-bent for pleasure and to hell with the brass, found that no orders applied after retreat. Some of their officers were as bad, or worse. Items...
...Hell with Them. French Communists, buttonholed last week at random and asked why they had joined the party, gave answers like these...
Marguerite Stihlé, timid, toothless mother of 14 children: "I'm a Protestant . . . my husband got sick. ... I asked the church for help but they put me off. One day they even asked me for a contribution. I said 'To hell with them' and we all joined the Communist Party...
...University of Michigan, spoke a heartfelt mouthful about mothers who insist on following their young into the operating room. Particularly objectionable: the mother-knows-it-hurts type; the ones who say "Johnny, spit like the dentist told you to." Mama, Dr. McBride forcibly implied, should stay the hell in the waiting room...