No Food But Lots Of Education A Warning From Thinkers
A columnist riffs on a Reader's Digest piece predicting grim futures due to overpopulation and poor crop quality. Scientists warn of war germs and atomic threats while agronomists push birth control and higher education to curb population growth. The narrator mocks diet fads and contemplates a coming era of scarcity and stubborn consumption. The piece blends satire with social critique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacteriological School
Earth
Reader’s Digest
Campaign Progress By George E. Sokolsky
In Butte Montana the columnist surveys Republican sentiment toward Dewey Taft Stassen and Vandenberg amid talk of Henry Wallace and Truman. He notes Dewey’s growth and loyalty of his aides, believes Vandenberg’s elder statesman image risks aide alignment, and predicts contentious foreign policy debates will shape the race.
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Dewey
Taft
Vandenberg
Stassen
Butte
Mont
New York
Harold Stassen
Ohio
Bob Taft
Senate
Sen. Vandenberg
Henry Wallace
Roosevelt
Truman
Stettinius
Byrnes
Marshall
Harry Truman
White House
United States
Wallace
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Vanity and the rise of male beauty standards in America
A Christian Science Monitor critique notes men entering beauty parlors for grooming and tan looks, transforming notions of masculinity into a nationwide beauty culture. It cites actors and businessmen, muscle worship, and the growth of male beauty contests as art and commerce reshape self image.
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Hollywood
Pardonus
Christian Science Monitor
Breakfast Amid Broad Talk of Justice and Freedom
The speaker asks for broad ideals like justice liberty and freedom from want while urging James to stop overanalyzing and let them enjoy breakfast. The message blends philosophy with a casual request to drop exacting scrutiny.
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James
Henry Wallace and the Roerich Letters Saga Revisited
A 1948 King Features Syndicate piece revisits Henry Wallace and the Roerich letters saga. It recounts Wallace defense, Roerich’s travels, and alleged bypassing of channels through the joss-house while detailing state and war department tensions and seed diplomacy in 1935 China and Turkestan.
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Henry
Westbrook
Washington
Henry Wallace
Nicholas Roerich
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bubblehead
Wallace
Roosevelt
Stalin
Eleanor the Great
Harry the Rasputin
Hopkins
Joe
Georges
China
Department of Agriculture
Asia
Texas
Westover
Enlow
Turkestan
McMillan
Stevens
Old Roerich
Roerich
Riverside Drive
Department
Joss-House
State Department
Cordell Hull
Hill-Billy
J. B. Powell
Chicago Tribune
Louis L. Horch
Philip R. Faymonville
Moscow
War Department
15Th U. S
Tientsin
Semenoff
Faymonville
Russia
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Two Weeks Of Moonlight by Bugs Baer
A 1948 King Features piece warns that a two week vacation brings risk of romance and marriage to a debutante. The narrator urges caution with summer suitors, likening them to untrustworthy ladders and urging independence from meddling chaperones.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Romance and the cash lure in Love and matrimony
A light column blends social satire with dating economics. It notes a Rockville Centre divorcee advertising for a bride with cash, cites Mrs. Lawler seeking a moneyed match, and mocks premarital audits while lampooning romance and Dan and Bradstreet. It also riffs on Sweden’s gender balance, Russian flirtations, and zodiac tendencies before adding sport scribes and dance lessons as entertaining diversions.
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New York
June
Betsy
Rockeville Centre
Long Island
Dorothy Lawler
Tyrone Power
Wilbur Q. Hogrows
Romeo
Dan & Bradstreet
Wall Street Chroniclers
Hendershot
Pueblo
Colo
Russia
Cupid
Mammon
Gossip and Notes from a Wide Ranging Column
A miscellany covers poetry reflections on infant thought, Churchill shaving, razor debates, the zipper delay, long serving domestic workers, Dale Carnegie sales figures and new title, a lampooned advice Q A, horse show jests, and brief passages about women and Joan Crawford in early film history.
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Belmont Park
New York Tracks
New Jersey
Chicago
California
Detroit
Sun Prairie
Wis
Joan Crawford
Guinan
Joan
Socialite's Qualifications for New York Mayoral Secretary
The anecdote recalls James J. Walker seeking a private secretary. A socialite applicant boasted four colleges and elite background, but Walker valued a candidate who earned education in a single college. The exchange highlights wit about education and suitability for public service.
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New York City
James J. Walker
New York
Walker
Milwaukee Journal
Not hard to write funny stuff says Leacock
The Wall Street Journal quotes Stephen Leacock on writing humor. He says success comes from simply sitting down with pen and paper and writing as ideas occur. The main difficulty is the occurring rather than the writing itself.
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Stephen Leacock
Leacock
Wall Street Journal
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George E. Sokolsky
Tom Dewey
King Features
Mahomet
By Robert C. Roark
Miss Crawford
Aries
Sweden
Bob Considine
Stan Musial
Joe DiMaggio
Ted Williams
Harry Heilmann
The
Tigers
Harry
Babe Ruth
Heilmann
J. G. Holland
Winston Churchill
London
Dale Carnegie
Mr. Carnegie
Dale
E. V. Darling
New Yorker
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr
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