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...time the news of his impending birth had first been made public (TIME, March 15), a wave of sentiment, curling into sentimentality, had traveled across the English-speaking world. Early last week an impressionable housewife of Elizabeth, N.J. dreamed that Britain's Elizabeth had had a boy, and woke her husband and three children in the dead of night to tell them about it. When the news reached Australia, electric carillons pealed in Sydney and Melbourne. Next morning, in London, the bells of St. Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous rejoicing. Stock-exchange...
...glass of buttermilk. By 7 o'clock he was in bed. His aides, who were established in the eleventh-floor penthouse suite of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, were gloomy; they had felt all along that election night would be like a wake. Harry Truman woke up several times during the night and telephoned to the Muehlebach. At about 4:30 a.m. he woke up again and beard better news...
...with the grey gloom of a misty November day outside the windows, Tom Dewey and his wife went to bed. At 10:30, Brownell woke him with the bitter news. Ohio was gone...
...Indispensable. Until 1936, Oppenheimer had never even voted; he was "certainly one of the most unpolitical people in the world." But in the depression he watched young, finely trained physicists cracking up because they were unemployed; he also heard about relatives forced to leave Nazi Germany. Says Oppenheimer: "I woke up to a recognition that politics was a part of life. I became a real left-winger, joined the Teachers Union, had lots of Communist friends. It was what most people do in college or late high school. The Thomas Committee doesn't like this...
...high school, he then listed some of the figures and percentages illustrating the increasing curve in education after secondary school. An all time high of 50 percent of high school graduates are new enrolled as collage freshman, and Conant felt sure the figure would continue to mount as America woke up to her scholastic responsibilities...