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Both as politician and social animal, Mendès was a lonely man in these years. "There's a certain interior coldness about him," admitted one of his few close friends. His austerity was somehow impressive in itself. He does not smoke, dance or gorge. "He's a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Ticking of the Clock | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

I must admit to being somewhat horrified by Author Philip Wylie's "backpedaling" act as heralded in your March i issue. To an old believer in the subjective approach to life . . . this is akin to a discovery that Santa Claus is actually Malenkov in disguise . . . Having been powerfully impressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Preacher Cleland proves his power with a piece of advice to young preachers about their witness in the world: "The believer walks in the World as a sympathetic stranger in an alien land . . . But he knows that the world is not for him.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blessed Are the Debonair | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Hell broke loose in Norway one day about a year ago when venerable Professor Ole Hallesby, speaking over the state broadcasting system, startled Scandinavian sinners with the warning: "If you are not a believer, be careful! If you were to collapse and die suddenly, you would crash straight into Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Inferno | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Died. Walter Conrad Arensberg, 75, one of the world's leading art collectors, who in 1950 presented his 1,000-piece, $2,000,000 collection of 20th century and pre-Columbian art to the Philadelphia Museum of Art; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A firm believer that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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