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...just read a news item which stated that Mr. Roosevelt was preparing a cushion for little business in order to soften the shock that is coming to all business organizations not engaged in defense work...
...center drive was a series of quickly improvised actions or a full-fledged counteroffensive, such as the late Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky plotted in the Red strategy books (TIME, Aug. 25). Marshal Tukhachevsky's ideas, as developed by disciples, called for a carefully prepared initial break-through by a "shock" army of twelve divisions (228,000 men) on a 30-mile front, supported by 2,500 artillery pieces, 960 tanks, 600 planes...
...Shock-haired, bespectacled Dmitri Shostakovich, No. 1 Soviet composer, joined Leningrad's defenders digging trenches. Said he: "I am also writing my seventh symphony. It will attempt to depict the Battle of Leningrad and tell the story of the city's Home Guards." Last great Russian battle piece: Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow...
...upper-crust life in Mapleton, 1940, according to Writer Barnard, who is 29 and obviously knows his milieu and his people thoroughly. The end of the book is corny; it portrays Park Gushing, disintegrating because of wife trouble, brought to the verge of regeneration by a bad shock. But Revelry By Night is fluently readable, at times masterfully comic, and-for a first novel-a surprisingly deft study of a way of life that seems doomed to perish, as those in The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby and Appointment in Samarra already have...
Fortnight ago this 16th battleship of the U.S. fleet-the first to be added in 18 years-completed her speed tests. Last week she headed out to sea for the toughest tests of all: gunfire that would show how well she could stand the shock of her own battle punch. Many a navyman still remembers how some years ago one famed U.S. battleship fired her forward turret on her test run and spent six months in the navy yard getting her damage repaired. And now North Carolina was out to prove the hard way that she could take a slug...