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Dates: during 1950-1950
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John Osborne did a fine piece of reporting in "The Ugly War" ... by giving us a sympathetic report on our young fighters in a rough country, among "people whom they don't like"-and, let us admit it, whose people do not have any great love...
...music business, a rough & ready seismograph of all public concerns, was beginning to zigzag to the war in Korea. Biggest of a crop of new patriotic songs sprouting along Tin Pan Alley was a brash tune in march tempo called The Red We Want Is the Red We've Got in the Old Red, White and Blue. Dashed off in ten minutes last May by Bickley (Stop Beating 'Round the Mulberry Bush) Reichner and British Songwriter Jimmy Kennedy,* it had been around almost all summer before Band Leader Ralph Flanagan persuaded RCA Victor to let him record...
...much scare buying had the war set off? Last week the Federal Reserve Board provided the first rough measure. In July, it reported, installment purchases of automobiles, refrigerator's and other durable goods had sent consumer credit soaring $660 million, well above the $457 million rise in May and $550 million in June, to a total of $20.3 billion...
...Ross was one of the bright young Ivy Leaguers who went to Washington to take a hand. Yaleman Ross sat to the left of the dealer and played his cards ably. Soon he was publicity chief of the NLRB and a mover & shaker in U.S. labor policy. After a rough ride as chairman of the controversial FEPC, "Mike" Ross quit government in 1946, moved to Florida and went back to writing books...
Beyond Defeat, by Hans Richter. The last, lost stages of World War II as seen by Germans who fought at Cassino. A rough but engrossing novel by a onetime private in Hitler's Wehrmacht (TIME, July...