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Clashing Concepts.The ardent identification of Roman Catholicism with Americanism has roused non-Catholics to be equally ardent in recalling the traditional American doctrine of separation of church & state...
...early took his stand with the progressive Republicans-the Deweys, the Stassens and the Vandenbergs, against the Old Guard-the Tabers, the Hallecks, the Martins and the Tafts. He came out strongly for U.N., for the full Marshall Plan appropriations, for universal military training. He has always been an ardent exponent of public power and reclamation projects for the West, of a permanent FEPC, of government assistance for private housing...
...movie translation of the sprightly Broadway musical written by Ogden Nash and S. J. Perelman* (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). When a pretty statue (Ava Gardner) is imported into a department store as a publicity stunt, a kiss from a shy window decorator (Robert Walker) melts the cold marble into ardent flesh. The living Venus has arms and some interesting ideas about using them. Her timid swain is mainly interested in 1) persuading her to go back to work as an objet d'art, and 2) placating his landlady, his girl and his boss...
Even the most ardent Democrats clucked despondently over the latest presidential bobble. At his press conference, the President was asked if he knew of any domestic crisis at the moment. Without batting an eye, the man who had demanded an emergency recall of Congress only seven weeks ago, on the grounds of a serious domestic crisis, replied that he had not been told...
...conference in Caux-sur-Montreux, Switzerland, had had a furious, long-drawn-out quarrel (Rodzinski did not say what about). Off to Rome on the next leg of his concert tour, the conductor asked a TIME correspondent to "spare me the doubtful honor of ever again calling me 'ardent Buchmanite...