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Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich; Author Lewis Mumford; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Riverside Church; Pollster Elmo Roper; National Farmers Union Boss James G. Patton (who runs N.C.S.N.P. material free in N.F.U. publications); Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman; Librettist Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II; and the committee's scientific anchor man, Caltech's busy chemist and busy politician, Dr. Linus Carl Pauling, longtime supporter of Communist-line fronts,* whose ideology was never noticeably shaken by the suppression inside the Soviet Union for years of his own Nobel Prizewinning discovery about the resonance...
Died. Elliot Harold Paul, 67, author (The Last Time I Saw Paris, Life and Death of a Spanish Town-), writer of sometimes tongue -in -cheek whodunits (HuggerMugger in the Louvre, The Mysterious Mickey Finn), screen playwright (Rhapsody in Blue), expatriate journalist, gourmet, jazz pianist; after long illness; in Providence. Among the writers who found themselves by getting lost in post-World War I Paris, few achieved more publication than Elliot Paul. A bearded, balding man with the look of a Tatar khan, he was a familiar figure on the Left Bank for nearly two decades, co-edited the monthly literary...
Handlin himself suggests that Smith was more of a politician than a Catholic for most of his life. Yet the author, not unmindful of Senator Kennedy, seems more concerned about religion than politics, for which he has little feel. The worst example of this nearsightedness on politics arises in contrasting Handlin on Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Everything Smith did that was a trifle unsavory but placated the machine is excused as "playing the game," and this includes a drumhead impeachment of an anti-Tammany governor. But when Roosevelt set out to win delegates in the South and West...
Dawson, a Roman Catholic historian and author, will be the first Charles Chauncey Stillman Guest Professor of Systematic Theology and principal of the Montreal Diocesan Theological College at McGill University will hold a newly established Professorship of World Religions...
Absent, unfortunately, is the masterly ability of a De la Mare or a Simenon to portray a Garden of Eden in which the black serpent of evil slides easily and naturally about its business. But Author Godden tells her tale neatly enough to content those who enjoy closeups of children's growing pains and the clashes of innocence and experience...