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...paintings are masterpieces which bear out a dictum of the sage Ptahhotep (see hieroglyphics below): "No limit may be set to art ..." The majority, however, for all their historical interest, are either stereotyped or clumsy, and illustrate the second half of Ptahhotep's saying: ". . . Neither is there any craftsman that is fully master of his craft...
...that Communism is a laughing matter to Fisher. In his quiet, casual way, he has rendered a devastating dictum on the subject: "There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian . . . The rest of the world are amiable non entities...
...steel goes, says an old economic dictum, so goes the economy. Looking at the charts last week, economists brought up on the old business axiom might have been puzzled by what they saw. Steel production, long the prime index of U.S. economic health, was down to a bare 62% of capacity, some 8% lower than the first-half average and 30% below the 1953 July level. But while steel lagged, the economy as a whole was still racing along at a near-record level. In Washington, the Federal Reserve Board announced that its overall index of industrial production, while...
...doctor who believes that Franklin's dictum can come true is Manhattan's famed Psychosomaticist Flanders Dunbar. But how? It occurred to her that one way to find out was to study men and women who have defied the aging process by living a hundred years or more, see what had made them tick so long. By questionnaire and personal interviews, Dr. Dunbar and her collaborators quizzed some 300 oldsters, 20% of all the living white centenarians born in the U.S. (excluding others because of the difficulty of confirming birth records). Last week, before the Third Congress...
...board, firmly believe that this can be the case, and, if we may be permitted something in the nature of a dictum, we believe that this principle should be a part of the security policy of the United States Government. The necessary but harsh requirements of security should not deny a man the right to have made a mistake if its recurrence is so remote a possibility as to permit a comfortable prediction as to the sanity and correctness of future conduct...