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Last week Arch Oboler doffed his inevitable sweat shirt in Hollywood, headed for Manhattan to talk over his sustaining series with NBC. Typical plot he has in mind: A man and wife live all by themselves in an apartment, refusing to speak to other occupants. Then a gangster moves into the apartment house and the man and wife discover they can't isolate themselves from others. "See," he says, "that's like American isolationists, and the gangster could be Hitler." The rest of the series is along the same lines...
...subway ride to the induction centre. Rockefeller squirmed, carefully refrained from giving any orders. Photographers went with him in the subway, shot pictures during the ride. When he got out, three newsreel trucks were waiting to catch him lugging his suitcase for the remaining three blocks. Sweat began to drip from his face, wilted his collar, stained his necktie...
Today tennis is still played for fun, but mostly by dubs, has-beens and never-will-bes. Many of those who play well enough to attract a crowd want to get paid for it. They sweat through amateur tournaments the year round to get their names in the papers, to enhance their box-office draw. The national championship, the goal of every U. S. amateur, is now also a convenient gateway to professionalism-the necessary first step to a barnstorming exhibition tour (for a guarantee...
After World War I, while their Government pursued a policy of political isolation, U. S. businessmen took to the high seas, developed industries abroad, sent their sweat home in dividends. By 1938 the U. S. had $1,350,000,000 of direct investments (mostly in subsidiaries of American corporations) in Europe alone. Meanwhile, as Hitler knocked the ethical props from under European capitalism, most U. S. businessmen in Europe were ready to clear out if they could take their shirts with them...
...Churchill was not without accomplishment. He gave his countrymen exactly what he promised them-blood, toil, tears, sweat-and one thing more: untold courage. It was the last that counted, not only in Britain but in democracies throughout the world...