Book World reviews The Shape of Books to Come and Yellow Magic
The piece surveys Lester Cohen’s Coming Home set in Pittsburgh about a Marine who wrongs a girl then battles a corporation to reclaim stolen inventions. It also covers Charles Grayson’s 50 short stories anthology and J. Donald Adams’s The Shape of Books to Come, plus Ratcliff’s Yellow Magic on penicillin and its wartime impact.
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Lester Cohen
Cohen
Pittsburgh
Boy
Marine Corps
Girl
Blakiston Company
Charles Grayson
Ernie Pyle
Capt
Grayson
J. Donald Adams
Viking Press
Adams
New York Times Book Review
Kenneth
Walter Edmonds
Esther F . James Boyd
Howard Fast
James T. Farrell
Erskine Caldwell
Richard Wright
Dreiser
Farrell
Studs Lonigan
Danny O'Neill
Caldwell
Georgia
Russia
Wright
Ellen Glasgow
Willa Cather
Elizabeth Madox Robers
Pearl Buck
Alexander Fleming
Ratcliff
Fleming
Bushnell Hospital
Utah
Army
Copper subsidy extended as wartime mines need the premium
Sam H. Morris of Globe, Arizona copper tariff board chair, predicted Congress will approve continuing the five cents per pound copper subsidy. He noted the bill is with a conference committee and urged a termination date of June 30, 1946 to prevent abrupt stoppage harming war production.
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Phoenix
Congress
Sam H. Morris
Globe
Arizona Copper Tariff Board
Washington
Morris
Arizona
Wage Case Parties Get 10 Days To Ready Briefs
Phoenix firm Bowen & McLaughlin, under a contract to repair Army half-tracks, faces a $1.4 million wage stabilization dispute. The 10th regional War Labor Board enforcement division contends wages paid from April to December last year exceeded authorization and seeks a lower, war-necessary scale of $1.37 1/2 per hour. Both sides now must submit briefs within 10 days.
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Phoenix
Bowen & McLaughlin
10Th Regional War Labor Board
Penicillin: From Salve to Science and Survival
A layman’s account credits penicillin’s success to the drug’s astonishing curing power for severely ill men once doomed to death. It notes Fleming’s role, the Turkish village anecdote, and the broad contribution of scientists, predicting lasting memory for families of servicemen treated with the drug.
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Ratcliff
Radcliff
Fleming
Turkey
Congressmen Vote Twice for Expense Pay Raise
Reporter Frederick C. Othman details House debate on a $2,500 tax free expense account for members, Truman urging a plain pay raise, and the final tally of 206 to 152 as lawmakers seek higher salaries and openness.
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Frank B. Keefe
Wisconsin
Sabath
Keefe
House
Truman
John M. Robinson
Kentucky
Senate
North Carolina
President Grant
Congress
A. Willis Robertson
Treasury
Tax Committee
Tom
Harry
Clare E. Hoffman
Michigan
C. Gasper Bell
Missouri
Seven Arizonans Named on Casualty and POW Lists
The Office of War Information lists seven Arizonans on today’s casualty list. Wounded in the Navy are Lt. Harold Gene Cole and Pfc. Charles H. Freeny. Army casualties in the Pacific include Corp. George S. Schutz. Wounded from Arizona include Pvt. Walter P. Gantzel Lt. Richard T. Hahn Pfc. Clarence F. Martin and Pfc. Eugene M. Ybarra. Three Tucsonans appear among liberated POWs: Lt. Norman E. Howe Lt. Theodore Pratt and Staff Sgt. Edwin H. Thomas.
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Office of War Information
Navy
Harold Gene Cole
Annie D. Cole
Whipple
Charles H. Freeny
USMCR
Prichard
Pacific
Corp
George S. Schutz
C. S&s. Schutz
Somerton
Walter P. Gantzel
Walter N. Gantzel
Tempe
Richard T. Hahn
Bertha Hahn
Pinetop
Clarence F. Martin
Alice M. Martin
Prescott
Eugene M. Ybarra
Sefora M. Ybarra
Buckeye
Eleanor Roosevelt Attends Washington Service Honors Gen Watson
Eleanor Roosevelt attends a White House ceremony in the rose garden where President Truman posthumously awards the Distinguished Service Medal to Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson widow receives medal. Watson served as Roosevelt’s military aide and later White House secretary before dying at sea returning from the Yalta conference.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Executive Mansion
Truman
Edwin M. Watson
Gen. Watson
President Roosevelt
Watson
Roosevelt
Yalta
Eisenhower Led 92 Allied Divisions to Victory
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded 92 Allied divisions to defeat Germany, Stimson announced. Among American units were 3 airborne, 15 armored, and 42 infantry divisions. British 14, Canadian 5, French 11, Polish 1, plus seven US divisions in Italy. Bradley noted the Ardennes offensive shortened the war materially and praised the U S Army's training and equipment during Germany’s counterattacks.
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Washington
U.P
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
Henry L. Stimson
Italy
Stimson
U. S
Bradley
Omar N. Bradley
12Th Army Group
Eisenhower
Ardennes
Roer River
Rhine
Roer
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