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...Denis Brogan has written that "in no Western society is the intellectual prestige of Catholicism lower than in this country, where in such respects as wealth, numbers, and strength of organization, it is so powerful." No well-informed Catholic, as Monsignor John Tracy Ellis said, would challenge this statement. But the Church is changing, and it is now possible to imagine Catholic intellectuals who instead of abandoning their religion, accept it, and become absorbed...
...were the best American Presidents? Emeritus Harvard Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., 74, asks the question in the New York Times Magazine and answers it with a poll of 75 men described as "students of American history." Among them: James B. Conant, Denis Brogan, Henry Steele Commager, Felix Frankfurter, and Schlesinger's own historian son, Arthur Jr., who now tinkers around the White House for a President who was not included in the rating. On a scale ranging from Great to Failure, five were called Great. F.D.R. finished third, after Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, but ahead of Woodrow...
...English, not the British, who started exploration and settlement in North America. Shakespeare is an English author; Burns a Scottish or Scots or Scotch author; Yeats an Irish author. The only British author I can think of at the moment is James Hilton of Goodbye, Mr. Chips. D. W. BROGAN Cambridge, England
Confirmed as the new U.S. Ambassador to Ireland was Millionaire Contractor Matthew H. McCloskey, 69, a twinkly old brogan from Philadelphia who, as longtime Democratic National Committee treasurer, demonstrated his fund-raising legerdemain by staging the first $100-a-plate dinner in 1934. His potluck for politics held good when the Senate rejected a Republican attempt, 62-30, to return the nomination over some alleged finagling in the 1946 purchase of a Government-surplus shipyard by Entrepreneur Louis Wolfson. But a regular Irish stew may await McCloskey on the Quid Sod. Demonstrating his Gaelic at a Washington dinner, he bellowed...
...first four now being mailed out indicate the kind of choice we have made: The American Character, by D. W. Brogan; The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene; Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech, and The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert L. Heilbroner. In addition to a positioning preface by the editors of TIME, often as not we hope to incorporate a specially written introduction by a critic or authority in the field, or by the author himself...