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Pained indeed to read [TIME, March 3] that Tom Paine's niche in the Hall of Fame still lacks a bust...
...open a paper today without encountering some new phase of the gross cruelty and perverted enthusiasm with which so many of our "superior, kindly" U.S. citizens are persecuting and prosecuting their neighbors, whether black or Jewish or white or Catholic. But we seem, in California (of Nisei persecution fame), to have struck a new low in American idealism. TIME'S forthright report of it, "Nothing Personal" [Feb. 17), is to be commended. . . . To find a group of "white Caucasians" (both conditions a pure accident of birth), holier-than-thou, Nazi-principled bigots going far out of their...
...Fame people reported that the niches reserved for Revolutionary Philosopher Thomas Paine and Yellow Fever Fighter Walter Reed-both elected to the Hall in 1945-still lacked busts (nobody has yet come through with funds to provide them...
...Maine coast. "The Sun will not rise, or set," he wrote contentedly to a friend, "without my notice, and thanks." His thanks were fathoms-deep seascapes and the flashing watercolors-mostly painted on hunting trips into the north woods and winter excursions to the Bahamas-on which his fame now rests...
Thumbed His Way to Fame...