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Dates: during 1940-1949
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I have just returned from a month of travel among the ruined cities of Germany. When I look at the photograph of these young St. Louis ruffians ... I remember that 15 years ago the same type of German youth was beating Jews in the streets of German cities, burning synagogues...
"In this country we have a special kind of head start, for we can usually depend on our American press-newspapers, radio, and magazines-to give us straight facts, to keep us fully informed, to help us understand. Now television, with programs like this one, can add a new dimension...
Caught Short. The poor harvest carried a few windfalls of good fortune. Last week, as feckless "shorts" ran to cover their bets in the grain markets, the price of wheat futures rose to the highest they had been in five months. At their peak of $2.06, December futures were 10...
The Great Sinner (MGM) is an expensive bloom resulting from some curious cross-pollination between Dostoevsky's The Gambler, elements of Dostoevsky's own life, and a few Hollywood afterthoughts. Like Dostoevsky, the hero of the story is a young Russian novelist (Gregory Peck) who is given to...
Grade A lords & ladies, driving their Daimlers and hunting the fox halfway in time between two world wars, swarm all over this chatty, rambling book. Lavish Hampton Park in western England, home of one of Britain's richest, noblest families, is their weekend headquarters. There, hostess Lady Montdore whips...