Books: Millennium Deferred

NUTRO 29 (307 pp.)—Frank Harris—Rinehart ($2.75).

"What," the reporter blurted at the editor of World Picture magazine, "would you consider the greatest news story of all time?" The reporter thought he had it: a research chemist had just synthesized sunlight and seaweed into a wonder food, Nutro 29. One box of pills no bigger than a pack of cigarettes and probably just as cheap would feed a man for a month.

There it was, the millennium between thumb and forefinger, all set to pop into the world's wide mouth. But history has always had a...

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