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In the House of Lords, the Marquess of Salisbury, present head of the great house of Cecil-spoke memorable words on the West's attitude toward Asian Communism. Said he: "I understand that our recognition of [the Chinese Communist] government has conferred no advantages on our traders, whom it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: It Is Impossible | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

He read it in an oddly methodical way. First he tore off Page One and the editorial page of the bulky newspaper. The moment he had laid aside the body of the paper a masseuse stepped into the room. Reader Sulzberger, having laid his two favorite pages on the pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Without Fear or Favor | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Satisfaction. "I rarely could perceive [in the interrogation] any personal hatred or enmity for me-contempt certainly, but sooner an academic, detached dealing with an annoying problem in order to achieve the goal, and a fanatic, rabid -obsession of devotion to Communism and hatred for Anglo-American resistance to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: How They Do It | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

The Rev. Reverdy Cassius Ransom is one of the patriarchs of Negro religious life in the U.S. The oldest bishop in one of the country's oldest Negro denominations, the African Methodist Episcopal Church,* frail-looking Bishop Ransom, 88, still works-as research director-for the church he has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confessions of a Bishop | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Vag detached the assignment sheet from his notebook and again added up the number of pages he had to go. It came to 124 more than it had the first time, and that was not counting the reading period assignment. The exam was Friday; this was Wednesday night. Vag shuddered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/28/1950 | See Source »

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