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This feeling about style, perhaps more than anything else, has always been Hemingway's credo-whether it concerned the right way to kill a bull, track a wildebeest, serve Valpolicella or blow up a bridge. And it was usually the redeeming feature and ultimate triumph of his characters: they might die, but they died with style. They left behind them some aura of virtue, some defiant statement of this-is-the-way-it-should-be-done that amounted to a victory of sorts...
...freedom. Most of the leading wizards who have so far kept us ahead in the atomic race fled here from military dictation and just such assault as the Shepley-Blair "report" which TIME [Nov. 8] defends. Their attitudes cannot be evaluated by people who do not understand their scientific credo. They cannot work well under regimentation: you can lead a free scientist to water but you cannot make him think. Soviet scientists have a different philosophy . . . They have a different drive, a furious feeling of alleged inferiority, and they 'are rewarded, respected and honored above virtually all other Soviet...
...National Association for the Preservation of the White Race, organized last July, is headed by Augusta, Ga. Store Owner Jack Dempsey, a former Grand Dragon of the K.K.K. The N.A.P.W.R.'s credo: "Negro blood destroyed the civilization of Egypt, India, Phoenicia, Carthage. Greece and Rome." Now Russia wants to destroy the U.S. by prodding "us to accept 16 million Negroes as social equals . . . Every American who by word or deed helps Russia further this plan of race destruction is a traitor to kind and country...
...Million Credo. Franklin Roosevelt had an eye for such promising young men; Jackson was brought to Washington as counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He landed right in the middle of a tremendously complicated tax suit against former Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Cried Jackson, during the trial: "It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200 million can do no wrong. Our offense consists in doubting it." Mellon's estate was forced to pay $700,000 in back taxes-and Bob Jackson took a big step upward in the New Deal hierarchy...
...inspired high spirits, Butler is, in the words of a friend, "completely unflappable -if a bomb exploded under his desk, he would press a button for his third secretary." Blood, toil, tears and sweat are not for him. Recently he advised a British audience to adopt his own credo: "Do not be elated, never be depressed." But Sir Winston has learned to admire Rab's solid virtues; when Butler presented his first budget, Churchill lumbered to his feet, flourishing a handful of papers to urge backbenchers to louder cheers, crying: ''This is Tory democracy...