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Last week, to the fans' surprise, and to Connie's too, the astonishingly athletic Athletics were playing first-division ball. Arriving at Shibe Park for a home stand, they took a firmer grip on fourth place. Not since 1934 had they stood so high so late in the season. Said their old Manager Mack, who is 84 now: "I've been in baseball a long time,* but I've never seen a team like this one for spirit and determination...
Unhealthy Titillations. Says Parson Hussey: "Artists are looking for firmer spiritual guidance in their work, and working for the church provides them with the kind of inspiration and background they need. Through works of art man probably reaches the highest achievement of which he is capable, and so such works are surely the most appropriate offerings to God." Art as an aid to devotion seems to him quite secondary: "I don't believe in providing worshipers with emotional titillations. I think it's a very unhealthy idea. But it's true that, as they have grown...
...crisis was only just beginning. The Communists, France's biggest party, might be more dangerous outside the Government than in it. Now that they had sided with the strikers, their grip on the labor unions was firmer than ever before -and through them they had a grip on France's entire economy. It was doubtful whether brave little Ramadier's centrist Government could run the country against Communist opposition. Inside Ramadier's own Socialist Party, a large faction, still bitterly opposed to the break with the Communists, might force Ramadier's resignation. Worried Frenchmen...
...methods used by "misguided zealots" to improve understanding between Jews and Christians. "The world today," he declared, "suffers from a laxity of faith and the great need of this moment is not so much the 'watering down' of particular religious beliefs but rather a greater and firmer conviction of one's own religion...
...seemed to agree on the cardinal issue of U.S. policy toward Russia. A Gallup poll reported last week that 19% of the people approved a continuation of Jimmy Byrnes's firmness-with-patience approach to Russia, but that an additional 51% hoped that Secretary Marshall would be even firmer. Only 5% wanted softer tactics...