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YEARS OF WAR, 1941-1945; FROM THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES, by John Morton Blum, uses the detailed personal diaries of F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., to trace the career of that imperious New Dealer from 1941, when he organized a wartime fiscal-fitness program for the U.S. economy, through the 1945 "Morgenthau Plan" for emasculating and dismembering conquered Germany, which cost...
YEARS OF WAR, 1941-1945; FROM THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES, by John Morton Blum, uses the detailed personal diaries of F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., to trace the career of that imperious New Dealer from 1941, when he organized a wartime fiscal-fitness program for the U.S. economy, through the 1945 "Morgenthau Plan" for emasculating and dismembering conquered Germany, which cost...
...only, psychologists answering letters from worried mothers, non-interviews with non-persons-showed signs of strain. The station developed a serious case of call letteritis ("And now, CBS news presents the CBS weather report"), mentioning CBS or WCBS about 35 times an hour. It also suffers from a lingering trace of the oldtime-radio multiple-byline syndrome: "We now take you to the White House for a report from Dan Rather," "This is Dan Rather at the White House," and, following the report, "This is Dan Rather returning you to CBS in New York...
...Regarding Physician Armstead Hudnell's suggestion to punch a small hole in the cigarette, I tried it and discovered very little trace of nicotine in the filter on the punched half. Then I punched two holes-more effective! I then punched three, four and five holes. With a pair of scissors I snipped a hole all the way around the cigarette. Would you believe, not a trace of nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide or smoke? What a Golconda...
...well brother Branwell. A decade ago, she moved to the Brontës' native vil lage of Haworth, the better to hear the moaning of the Yorkshire moors that the girls loved. She has read 20 years' worth of Blackwood's magazine to trace the sources of Charlotte's erudition and deciphered trunkfuls of childish scrawl to interpret her juvenilia. If the result is not the vivid portrait that Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell wrote right after Charlotte's death, it is more complete and accurate-an exhaustive source of Bront...