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...guest appearances in his first visit to the U.S., Munch was allowed to pick his own programs. In Boston, where he made a big hit, Beacon Hill rustled with rumors that he would succeed 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky as the Boston's permanent conductor...
...long as U.S. servicemen-even radio beacon operators and weathermen-remain at Greenland outposts, the U.S. is exposed to verbal sniping from Moscow for "keeping troops on foreign soil." But with the Soviets trying to muscle in on Norway's Spitsbergen (TIME, Jan. 20), Washington military men thought this might be as good a time as any to buy Greenland, if they could...
From Religion: Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, will discuss the U.S. spiritual role in the world. He has proclaimed it thus: "America has been, and must ever continue to be, under God, the Beacon of Liberty . . . the proof that humanity can live in mutual respect based on the law of God, voiced through the conscience of man, and in mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life." Cardinal Spellman, the closest U.S. friend of Pope Pius XII, is as American as an apple dumpling - a onetime trolley-car conductor who now holds an airplane pilot...
Boston, which fancies itself the Athens of America, was crammed to its Beacon Street attics with scientists: 5,000 members of the Triple-A S (American Association for the Advancement of Science) in convention assembled. There were psychologists, mycologists, physicists, ecologists, and other genera. They jammed hotel lobbies, mystified the indigenous fauna with polysyllabic shop talk...
Militarism and Harvard were recently thrown into the came wastebasket by that dyspeptic surveyor of the preparatory school, Porter Sargent '96, writing the yearly preface to his "Handbook of Private Schools." The latest of the last straws for the dean of Beacon Street was the simultaneous award last June of honorary Doctor of Laws degrees to four of the nation's top war commanders. When Generals MacArthur and Marshall return to pick up the two additional degrees promised them in their absence, Mr. Sargent's disgust will probably be complete. It has a right to be. Not only...