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...that there is still reason to hope. Methodist Pastor Safran has the courage to speak out against the . . . racial bigotry which we in the North practice. The Church of England actually has more applicants for religious training than it has vacancies. A fighting Protestant Irishman has gotten hard-bitten policemen to act like "gentlemen." Japanese Christians predict a tenfold increase in their ranks. And TIME says that "the greatest writing in human history has been religious writing. . . ." A wonderful department, indeed...
...alone for many days and nights. The days became weeks and the weeks became months, and still there was no sign of land. All this time Nabetari kept alive by catching fish.* When there was no rain he drank shark's blood. His friend had his arm bitten off when he was trying to catch a shark. Afterwards the friend died...
...tree-shaded lanes had already used up lipstick by the bucket. Baseball was wonderful again and dance bands were improving-grandstands and pavilions were crowded. Summer stock and borsch circuit vaudeville were splashed with big names. If the fishing was not the best in history, a million mosquito-bitten men would never admit...
Died. Captain Norman Mickey ("Bus") Miller, 38, the Navy's legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels...
...current historical-novel bug has bitten even Somerset Maugham. With Then and Now he leaves the 19th and 20th Centuries for the first time since his Making of a Saint (1898), retreats 400-odd years to the Italy of Cesare Borgia and Niccoló Machiavelli. Then and Now is a talky, occasionally witty costume piece about Machiavelli in love and Borgia in his glory. It is also an ironical sermon on the unchanging wonders of human nature. Novelist Maugham, now 72, denies that he preaches sermons of any kind. Said he recently: "I think it is an abuse...