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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Ghost" siring of children by artificial human insemination (except when the husband is the donor) is of the same character. It ... turns a Christian marriage into what it is not . . . "Ghost" siring of children makes eventually for "ghost" marriages. That is why a lot of intelligent Christians are against it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Robert Cant well's portrayal of Hawthorne is superior to James's in warmth and scope; it is free of James's overtones of worldly condescension; and whatever it may lack of James's awesome artistic judgment it makes up for in freshness, and in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Real Man's Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

"So be it," answers the Literary Supplement of the Times of London in a recent book review, "but then, no other nation has so much in itself to admire." Whereupon, using a collection of essays (The Character of England, Oxford; Clarendon Press) as a point of departure, the Times proceeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: ARCHANGELS IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Along the roads it was hard to tell that there had been fighting. Farmers tilled fields, animals grazed, peasants slept under trees. Only at rare intervals did we see a few dead bodies. Here & there was an overturned Hyderabad truck. At the village of Homnabad, the Indian army showed off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Happy War | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

An anonymous Frenchman had offered Oxford ?1,500,000 ($6,000,000)-biggest gift ever received from a foreigner, and second largest in modern times.* There were a few strings attached. Most of the money was to be used to start a new college. Its name: St. Anthony's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Munificent Monsieur | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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