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...Down. In Washington even the most devout Democrats regretfully observed that after six months in office and two months of peace, Harry Truman was doing little better than muddling through. Bouncy Maury Maverick, the Texas ex-Congressman now in charge of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp., bought himself a dime-store compass and cracked: "There are so many times when I don't know in which direction I'm going that I have to take it out and look...
...rnberg jail, where most of the accused were held, there was a decided religious trend. More & more of the Nazis asked for Bibles and the services of the U.S. Army chaplains. One of the most devout was Hans Frank, who had walked into captivity clad only in a pair of silk panties...
Love & Hate. The Yearbook recites a litany familiar to devout Freudians-love that is really hate and submissiveness that is aggression, as well as much stuff that anybody's grandmother would have dismissed as just a dirty thought. But in the case histories, new & old, translated for the most part out of the Freudian pig-Latin into something resembling the vulgar tongue, the Freudians talk so that laymen can usually understand their sex theory. Examples...
...time, thousands of devout Roman Catholics were calling daily on the college porter, praying with him and leaving gifts of money. In 1896 the first chapel was built on a plot opposite the college. Later a bigger one was built, still later a third. Today the $6,000,000 Oratory of Saint Joseph is a great, concrete-domed structure topped with a neon-lighted cross that towers over Canada's "City of Churches." Ecclesiastical tribunals are already at work in Montreal, Providence, R.I., Ottawa, and St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, checking evidence and proceeding with the first steps that may lead...
...Economist Hansen, devout disciple of Britain's John Maynard Keynes, severed his relationship with the Federal Reserve Board, no one took the trouble to say last week. But to observers in Washington the reason was as obvious as the Federal Reserve building's big bronze doors through which he had passed so often...