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...symbol Pius XII is a spiritual autocrat of incalculable power...
...CRIMSON THREAD-Lilian Lauferfy -Simon & Schuster ($2). A trio of deaths in the family of a rich Connecticut autocrat is cannily elucidated by a roughhewn local law officer, with considerable help from a bright girl radio scripter. Emotion sometimes clouds the plot, but the general effect is pleasing...
...scorching day in 1862, a Boston Brahmin stood on the battlefield of Antietam, from which some 5,000 bodies had just been removed. The old man was the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, the author of The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay and The Chambered Nautilus-Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had heard that his son, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 21, was shot through the neck, and he had dashed down from Boston to find the boy or his body. He found neither at Antietam. A week later, in Harrisburg, Pa., the Doctor ran into his son at last...
Like Henry Ford, who standardized automobiles and put them within reach of everybody, Emily Post made polite manners a commodity available to all by reducing them to a set of simple, exact rules. Today, at 67, Mrs. Post is still undisputed autocrat of U. S. etiquette. Mrs. Post has long had another ambition: to write a Blue Book for raising children. Last week it appeared: Children Are People (Funk & Wagnalls...
Hicks affirmed his distrust for any "leader or autocrat who sets himself up as being able to tell others what to do," and said that the example of Russia has shown us that "we must have democracy all the way, and that we can't possibly go from tyranny to a democratic government...