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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evangelist. His success as a fisher of men lies perhaps in his combination of a relaxed, almost chatty delivery with a sudden-flaring, white-hot zeal. His manner is easy and urbane, but his matter is often passionate, personal, and contemptuous of easygoing Christianity. Man is either for God, he says, or against...
...pitching days were numbered. Shortly afterwards, the St. Louis Cardinals sold Dizzy to the Chicago Cubs for $185,000, even though the Cubs knew of Dr. Hyland's findings. Last week three of the doctor's patients were easily identifiable as Cardinals. It was no secret either that the 1949 pennant hopes of the New York Giants would rise or fall on how skillfully Doc Hyland carved a bone growth from Catcher Walker Cooper's kneecap this week...
...average, cinemogul regards film critics as either free pressagents or costly saboteurs. Even when a bad picture is a box-office hit, the moviemaker resents the critic who has called it bad. MGM, which specializes in movies that the public loves, is particularly touchy about critics who refuse to love its products.* Last week MGM's dislike of unfriendly reviewers had roused all of London's critics to battle...
...readers want literary criticism in addition to encyclopedia-style knowledge, the History will prove less satisfying. Too often it discusses writers as examples of "trends" or "forces" rather than judging them by the pleasure they can still yield to readers. What the History lacks most is individuality. Either because many academic writers employ the same rather soggy prose, or because the editors have pressed the essays into one stylistic mold, most of them read as if written by one man: a learned but conventional professor. (One happy exception: the chapter on "American Language," in which the gay, strong hand...
...downfall of the Nationalist government is only a matter of time, according to Fairbank. The best aid the U.S. could send now would be in the nature of food and other necessities of life. These shipments, though, Fairbank stressed, should not go directly from our government to either the National or Communist government but should be distributed through such agencies as United Service to China, Red Cross, missions, and the UN International Relief Organization...