Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reformer. From boyhood Frank Murphy had had a kind of desperate intentness. He carried with him the Bible given him by his mother and read a chapter from it every day. He played football at the University of Michigan until a 220-Ib. center fell on his 135-lb. frame and broke three ribs. He studied law, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, and returned home to become an assistant U.S. attorney (in which job he convicted, among others, a young bootlegger named Sherman Billingsley, now owner of Manhattan's posh Stork Club...
...rather plaintive chapter in the Government's booklet answers some questions which the AEC has been getting from would-be prospectors. The Government, it says, will not finance prospectors, nor will it lend or rent Geiger counters. It discourages people who write that they have found a place where their watches or compasses don't work (uranium does not affect watches or compasses). And phosphorescence (from decayed stumps at night) is not a sign that uranium is present...
After thinking it over, the Cuyahoga County chapter of the Gold Star Mothers of America passed an angry resolution: "Public display of such a figure is objectionable as obscene to many of our citizens . . ." Agreed the Catholic War Veterans: "[An] architectural abortion...
...that would not get Mary Terrell into the Washington chapter. As soon as the vote was counted, Washington made its decision: it seceded from the association. It was a pity, sighed the quietly disgusted New York Times, "because women with the advantage of a college degree really ought to know better, and because women representing the capital of this democracy ought at the least to act as though they believed in democracy...
Ordained to Praise. The woodcuts, mostly book illustrations and chapter headings, betrayed Gill's lack of academic training: the drawing, especially of human figures, was awkward, stiff and anatomically inept. But the prints also showed the order and clarity of Gill's mind and the precision of his craft; they had the decisive simplicity that characterized all his work. Beyond that, even his woodcuts of devils seemed to attest Gill's joy in life -and therefore to praise God. "Man," Gill wrote, "is that part of creation which can praise his creator. Because...