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"The Cat's Cradle" contains the most accomplished writing in the issue, which is no surprise, coming as it does from F. Kimball's ecclesiastic phase. I boggled a bit at the ending which, though perfectly consistent and the hinge of the story, was slightly theatrical.

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 5/10/1955 | See Source »

Upon graduation, about 35 percent of the class goes on to some form of graduate work--mostly medicine or law. A sprinkling finds its way to Business School, and a few eyeing a university teaching post, attack an MA degree. One or two still enter theological seminary, harkening back to...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Colgate: Solid Businessmen of the Next Decade | 10/10/1953 | See Source »

Painful Conflict. Though the Vatican termed stories of intervention by Duplessis "ridiculous," its spokesman noted that the archbishop's resignation "automatically dispels what had become a painful conflict of opinion between ecclesiastic and civil authority." Msgr. Antoniutti, charged with settling the conflict, had put his problem to Charbonneau. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Resignation, with Rumors | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

At 50, Hoagy can almost support his family (a wife and two young sons) on the income from Stardust, written in 1929. Says he: "It's practically an annuity." He still felt "like a rank amateur" after his first long-haired composition, but he confessed he was already at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Indiana Melody | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Like most Methodist ministers at the turn of the century, Virginia's young (36) James Cannon Jr. was dedicated to the defeat of the Demon Rum. Gaunt and black-bearded, humorless and generally disliked, he licked alcohol by legislation in his native state (1914), did as much as any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tangled Moralist | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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