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Svirsky's journalistic aspirations received their first jolt when he "failed badly" as a heeler for the Yale Daily News. With a successful newspaper career behind him in spite of that rejection, he now recalls that the News was chiefly a haven for big men on the Eli campus. "Journalism didn't count for much with them...
...reporter he blandly declared: "If I'm a fascist, you are Mary Pickford." But the Strong Man's attempt to make the election a personal quarrel with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden ("Perón or Braden, that is the issue"), got a jolt when Harry Truman stated flatly that, as President, he stood behind every word in the Blue Book...
...result was the second rude jolt to Russian prestige in Russian-occupied lands in a month. Hungary's Communists had been snowed under by the Small Holders Party (TIME, Nov. 12). Now Austria's Communists went down to defeat even in the working-class districts of Vienna and Wiener Neustadt. The Volks-partei, heir to Dollfuss' old Christian Social Party and catchall for former members of the Pan-German and Heimwehr parties, rolled up about half of the vote. The Social Democrats got more than...
...biggest jolt to German morale (which was only kept from going to pieces by the Nazis' iron fist) was delivered by the R.A.F. in three "city attacks" on Hamburg in the summer of 1943. There was "some indication . . . that Hitler thought that further attacks of similar weight might force Germany...
Some bored Broadwayites take amphetamine sulfate (benzedrine, the popular stay-awake drug) along with barbiturates, to get an effect called "a bolt and a jolt." It lays a man out, then snaps him to. The antithesis of the barbiturates, benzedrine has a stimulating effect (much like ephedrine or like the body's own adrenaline). The Army sometimes used benzedrine to keep flyers awake on long missions...