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...hospital, growing steadily feebler, suffering from diabetes and arteriosclerosis, often on the point of death but always able to call upon his Tennessee toughness to pull him through. Last week, at 83, in the U.S. hospital at Bethesda, Md., Hull fell into a coma. He did not awaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Modifier | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...enemies materially strengthened. On the other hand, if we object to East-West trade which would obviously be beneficial to our allies, we will see even a further increase in European charges that the United States is meddluing in domestic politics that do not concern it; ultimately we might awaken to find that a once-strong alliance had crumbled. Finally, there is the very real possibility that there has been a shift in Russian policy: the men presently in the Kremlin might genuinely wish for peaceful co-existence. The door to such a goal is one which United States policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Decision in Belgrade | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

...Republic of Letters such literary greats as Henry Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Gibbon and Byron appear freshly alluring. Author Kronenberger can take the measure of bent, spiteful Alexander Pope and awaken fresh interest in "the master of the scalpel and the poisoned dart [who] reclothed clichés of thought so vividly that they long ago became cliches of language." He can persuade the reader that gabby Letter Writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is worth another whirl: "She had very few friends, but time was one of them." And he can be shrewd about such old critically-untouchables as Robinson Crusoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pleasant Company | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Conscience and courage on the part of America's leaders can re-awaken a public sense of fair play and force a sensible revision of our security program, John Lord O'Brian '96 said last night in his concluding Godkin Lecture...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: Courage Can Restore Rights, O'Brian Says | 4/29/1955 | See Source »

...Communists and Russia; some second thoughts about rearming and lining up on the Western side of the cold war. "... I feel that alignment only with the Western nations and the ignoring of the Communist nations . . . could lead to a third world war," said Ichiro Hatoyama. "I would like to awaken the people to a deeper, more serious sense of their independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Land of the Reluctant Sparrows | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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