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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...international program proposed aid to Britain and China holding that "England, whatever it has been in the past, today presents the picture of a people united in a common effort, the defense of a state in which democratic living will be possible...
...past dozen years have seen the ascendancy of the Economics Department to Harvard's no. 1 field of concentration. But its ever growing responsibility to the College has not aroused the Department to the necessity for gathering the loose ends of its organization into at least a semblance of order...
...last fortnight he wrote on his editorial page: "We are making a special appeal to our subscribers ... on account of an unusual emergency. Within the past few weeks, the editor of this paper has found it necessary to consult eminent physicians ... on account of great physical suffering which has sapped our strength...
...past year, Hedda Hopper has been the No. i aerial gossip of Hollywood. Thrice weekly over a CBS network she has broadcast tittle-tattle about celluloid hotshots, under the sponsorship of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Supplementing her syndicated newspaper column, Hedda's program has helped her to move in on the domain of Louella Parsons, Hearst's quidnunc extraordinary, who used to have Hollywood in her pudgy palms. Last week Gossip Hopper went swirling to Manhattan to be lionessed at luncheons, ballyhooed all over town...
This space-time-matter organism is forever evolving. Mankind is the whole organism's "developing nervous system," and is due for greater changes still. Reiser insists that men must not leave their evolution merely up to cosmic rays as in the past, but must take their fate in their own hands, construct a rational, planetary society. If man does so, promises Reiser, "he will be superseded by the superman...