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Night Among Friends. The old gentleman smiled a cautious smile, lifted a hand in greeting, and stood holding himself stiffly erect, almost as if overwhelmed by the sound. Herbert Hoover was 77. Time had whitened his hair, turned his cheeks a flaming pink, and softened the lines of his face. For 20 years he had suffered, with dignity and without complaint, an auto da fé of criticism such as few men, even in public life, have ever endured. But this was his night among friends, his night for the homage due an ancient warrior. The uproar lasted...
...congratulate you on the abolition of the system," Prime Minister Nehru told 50,000 peasants of his native Uttar Pradesh last week. "At last," said one of the cheering crowd who heard him at Modinagar, "I can walk erect...
Nobody loves a reformer, least of all those who have been reformed. The popularity that stern, erect Marthe Richard had won as a heroine of the underground in two wars soon dwindled when, in 1945, as a crusading member of the Paris Municipal Council, she succeeded in closing the city's brothels (TIME, Dec. 31, 1945 et seq.). Deprived of their comfortable evenings in such ill-famed establishments as Le Sphinx and Le Poulailler, Frenchmen sneered as the once systematically supervised prostitutes took to the streets and alleys of Paris to ply their trade. The venereal disease rate soared...
...press conference the president revealed that he hoped to erect a federally controlled Archives Building in Grandview, Missouri...
...least a six-year period, and that new support should simultaneously be sought to continue the activities after that time. Approximately four million dollars, it was estimated, would be needed to provide for new professorships and more scholarships, while estimates on the new Education Building the School wants to erect run as high as one-and-a-half million more...