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...blink. Twenty-five years ago, traditional Christianity seemed to many an American intellectual to be rolling up the scroll. The Good Life was a matter of well-planned getting and spending, and all the answers were to be found written down, from Hegel to Freud to Keynes. Professor John Dewey and his fellow philosophers were preaching a heady trial & error pragmatism. The up-to-date intellectual was so uninterested in Christianity that he rarely found it worth while even to be antireligious...
...York's Republican Governor Tom Dewey, 52, although remaining publicly silent about his plans, is ready to stand for reelection. Possible occasion for Dewey's formal announcement: the $100-a-plate Republican dinner to be held May 26 at the Waldorf...
...York bubbled with speculation as to how the week's revelations would affect Tom Dewey's pending decision whether to run for another term as governor. Dewey himself gave no clue, but this week made it clear who had appointed the harness-racing investigators in the first place. "I instructed them to turn harness tracks upside down and inside out," said Dewey. "They have done exactly that...
Robert Moses, the man who has long presided over the planning of New York City's parks, playgrounds and highways, was upped by Governor Thomas E. Dewey to the chairmanship of New York's State Power Authority, a job which will put Moses on top of such projects as the $300 million St. Lawrence River hydroelectric development...
...character of the city, the process has also worked in reverse. Among its alumni are 3,000 New York City lawyers, 1,500 physicians, and 1,000 of the city's dentists. Its college and graduate schools have turned out ten New York governors (among them: Thomas E. Dewey, LL.B. '25), and 14 New York City mayors. Simon and Shuster, Harcourt and Brace, and Alfred Knopf all went there; so did Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein II. In the newspaper field, Columbia boasts a variety of opinion-makers, from the Times's Arthur Hays Sulzberger...