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Science's sharpest eye is the electron microscope. It sees with a fine-grained beam of electrons instead of coarse-grained light. Last week the Electron Microscope Society of America met in Philadelphia to talk about a few little things they had seen...
Profitable Deals. Fellow officers had known Benny Meyers as the sharpest man with figures that the Air Forces had. He received the Legion of Merit for devising the wartime system of production controls and scheduling. One top-ranking officer declared: "Without Benny we would not have had the 6-29s when we wanted them...
Every good advertising man has enough Irish to know that a pat phrase should be hit hard with a mike. Super-Salesman Chuck Luckman, who has that kind of Irish, and has rounded up the nation's sharpest advertising talent to help sell his food-conservation campaign, last week was still plugging his favorite theme. He crowed jubilantly: "We are rolling. The people are picking this up." And he added a flat prediction. Around Jan. 1, he said, the Save-Food program for Europe will reach its 100-million-bushel goal...
...Henry Wallace, Morgenthau reserved his sharpest shafts and, in a backhanded way, his greatest admiration. "Wallace's whole theory of spending in order to reduce agricultural production," Henry wrote in his diary, "always seemed nonsense to me." Once, Morgenthau complained to Wallace that it was costing $130 million in overhead for the Agriculture Department to give away $516 million in nine months. Said Wallace: "You don't understand what we are doing." "Oh, yes I do," shot back slow-boiling Henry Morgenthau. "I understand it more every day. . . . The one that costs us more than anybody else...
Anger in Nanking. After Wedemeyer's blast at the Chinese Government (TIME, Sept. 15), many Chinese thought they knew just what to expect. Wrote Fei Hsiao-tung, sociology professor and one of China's sharpest political commentators: "We must not be offended because the U.S. has become indifferent to China. [But] we are worried for the U.S." Reported TIME'S Nanking correspondent...