Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thank you for a most inspiring article about the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, author of Abide with Me [TIME...
...H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor was reported as saying that he might like to write a book. That was all the editors of LIFE needed to hear. They signed up the Duke for a series of three autobiographical articles on his youth and young manhood. The price was the author's (and LIFE'S) secret...
Lesson for Free Traders. The devaluation was the most spectacular move in a drastic governmental program to end Italy's wild inflation. The author and guiding head of the plan is famed Economist Luigi Einaudi, 73, a frail, dry man who sometimes sounds as dull as the retired professor that he is. But as Vice Premier, Minister of the Budget and Governor of the Bank of Italy, he has put an unprofessorial wallop into his actions. Although he is one of Italy's outstanding apostles of unfettered free enterprise, Einaudi has not hesitated to fight inflation with hard...
...Repentant. There were other children of treason. Says Author West: "The children "who go from their homes with strangers because they have been given cakes and sweets are unsustained by pride when the unkindness falls on them. They know well that they have done wrong. A person should be loyal to his father and mother, to his brothers and sisters, to his friends, to his town or village, to his province, to his country; and a person should do nothing for a bribe, even if it takes the form of a promise that he should live instead...
...bumpy, uneven plot that strays off the track more than once, and a jolting dialogue that gathers speed only when heading downhill, suggest haste more than tempered reflection. The few worthwhile thoughts on the value of means versus ends become lost in the general rush-hour atmosphere. Perhaps the author had to finish his piece before he could start his Christmas shopping...