Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very much. One of these was the discerning President of Cornell, Dr. Livingston Farrand, who spent each Friday evening with TIME and "was never disappointed." Colonel E. M. House found that TIME "filled a long-felt need." Newton D. Baker "read every issue." Senator Borah found it "excellent-brief, brilliant, up-to-the-hour...
...pressure is not all from race fans: there are soldiers' families trying to get home from Florida debarkation camps, soldiers crowding North for brief furloughs. While civilian experts for the Army & Navy cooled their heels in Miami, the Miami Herald's society columns blossomed with items about debutantes shuttling North for a week at the Waldorf and then South again for such matters of state as "parties preceding the marriage of a college roommate." ODT finally could no longer ignore the mess, ordered two extra trains daily from Florida to New York. They will be ancient, all-coach...
Road Show. As for purely military matters, in the brief time he has held his command General Wilson probably has been compelled to do more patching than planning. The Italian operation was in motion before he took over. General Wilson finds himself today commanding a theater which was once the western Allies' big show, but has now been downgraded by tactics and politics. In earlier days the Mediterranean fighting seemed the start of Winston Churchill's widely advertised notion of striking at the soft underbelly of the Axis. Now it is clear that the European underbelly...
...Benedictine Rule. St. Benedict's treatise for his monks is concerned with three things: labor, prayer and self-denial. Work is the first step toward holiness. Monks are to be "wearied with labors for God's sake." Prayer should be brief "and with purity of heart, except it be perchance prolonged by the inspiration of divine grace." The whole Psalter must be recited each week, "for we read that our holy Fathers were strenuous enough to fulfil in a single day this task which I pray that we lukewarm folk may complete in the whole week." St. Benedict...
...Russia might well oppose a union of Catholic Bavaria and Catholic Austria, prefer to draw Austria into a bloc with Czechoslovakia and Poland. West Germans - Rhinelanders, Saarlanders, Westphalians of the Ruhr Valley - might clamor to be made independent, too. (At the end of World War I there was a brief Rhineland republic.) Bismarck's unifying labors in the 19th Century and recent Nazi pressure to eradicate old boundaries within the Reich may have gone so far that all dismemberment now would fail...