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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.W.F. movement started in a bathtub, roughly speaking, some seven years ago. Harris Wofford, a student at an eastern high-school, heard Clarence Streit (author of "Union Now") over the radio, while bathing. Inspired by Streit's plea for a supra-national government, Wofford leaped out of the tub and proceeded to form an organization known as the Student Federalists. But it wasn't until after the San Francisco Conference in 1945 that the campaign for One World began to give off steam...
...special interests who were spoiling the show? Harry Truman came no closer to defining his term than to refer four times and scathingly to "the Republicans." But, after all, his own party was in the majority. Obviously not all of the Democratic cast were in sympathy with the Democratic author...
Died. William Thomas Walsh, 57, leading Roman Catholic educator and author (Isabella of Spain; Saint Peter the Apostle), who won the 1944 Catholic Literary Award; after long illness; in Larchmont...
Died. Francis Edwin McMurtrie, 64, author, journalist (London Sunday Express), and since 1935 editor of the world-famed Jane's Fighting Ships, the exhaustive annual reference book on the world's navies; of cancer; in Hoddesdon, England...
...Charley Grays burn themselves out in the race to pass the Blakesleys and creep up on the Burtons; then find themselves at the end with no spiritual props to make life bearable. The question Author Marquand's book raises is: "Are the rewards of all your efforts worth the effort?" But Charley Gray himself may be too busy even to hear the issue stated. Like an aircraft pilot who has passed his own point of no return-the point on a long flight where it takes more gas to go back than to go on to his destination-Charley...