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...really must slow down'-this is becoming the repeated refrain of my children and friends," noted Reluctant Dowager Eleanor Roosevelt. She was obviously not listening as she sailed into her 78th year ( she has decided to celebrate only every fifth birthday ) with a convocation appearance at Memorial University in St John's. Nfld. and a call on the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s palaver in Manhattan. "How can I slow down." she wondered, "when the world is so challenging? I think I must have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore Roosevelt in m, because I enjoy a good...
Reviewers hastened to assess the new Bible's contributions to religion and literature. Even on the 78th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, the London Daily Worker gave the new Bible serious attention-and found it wanting. "The beauty and power, the earthy 17th century prose, have been replaced by merely competent writing which ranges in character from that of a report in the Times to that of advertising copy." That Which Slept. Presumably more interested than the Daily Worker in a clear, understandable Bible, scholars and clerics in the U.S. and Britain generally sounded more favorable...
...slight, white-maned old man with large, dark eyes was working steadily last week amid masses of congratulatory mail, which had come to him from all over the world on his 78th birthday. His three-room apartment in the quiet Munich suburb of Bogenhausen is a center of Roman Catholic intellectual life in Germany, with an almost equally strong attraction for many Protestants. Just out of the hospital (where he underwent surgery for an ailment described only as neuralgia), Monsignor Romano Guardini again presided over his "Laboratory of Ideas," with its long refectory table, its delicate Gothic Madonna standing against...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra Royal Society of Ushers recently announced its choices for the worst performances of the BSO's 78th season, which ended last week. The BSORSU is composed of the 16 Harvard undergraduates who usher the Friday-Saturday concert series...
...scores of the Cooperative Tests of the Educational Records Bureau in American History, a score which would put an independent school student in the 78th percentile ranking would put him into the 99th percentile ranking of a Southern high school. If the same student ranked in the 50th percentile in the independent scale, he would place in the 91st bracket of Southern schools. These figures do indicate that the Southern high schools are considerably behind the private schools, but the Midwestern or Eastern public schools would rank somewhere in the middle of these two extremes...