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...inconspicuously he moved along with the other 3,500 veterans waiting to buy surplus property at Baltimore's Holabird Signal Corps depot. But the sharp-eyed man was taking plenty of notice of them. Major General Robert McGowan Littlejohn, new War Assets Administrator, was out to get firsthand information on what was wrong with a WAA sale...
...world was not created by God, but by a lesser, coarser deity, and that Christ, the Incarnate Word, did not truly live, suffer and die like a man, but only seemed to do so. He calls it a "Bill of Spiritual Rights, claiming for man the privilege of . . . establishing firsthand acquaintance with Deity in the person of an intimate, ever present God, and a genuine unpretending Christ...
...Pearson's Wilde is a skillful synthesis of earlier books, amended by such facts and opinions as he was able to gather at firsthand. "No one," he declares, "[has] yet attempted to reconstruct Wilde as a great character.. . . Far too much attention [has] been paid to his tragic story and nothing like enough to his delightful personality. . . . My intention [is] to take him out of the fog of pathology into the light of comedy, to restore the true perspective of his career...
Unlike his potent conservative' rival, Ohio's John W. Bricker, 38-year-old Harold Stassen sees no advantage in having a sounding board in the Senate. Instead, he has a two-year plan. He intends 1) to visit Russia, Europe, South America for firsthand study, 2) to talk international and domestic issues in the 48 states. To the G.O.P. Old Guard this was clear notice that he would also be trying to build a 1948 organization. A man as determined as Stassen could not be held lightly...
...Roman Catholic Church has been receiving pages of copy in the secular press. It rightly deserves this coverage. ... It not only made news; it invited the press to be firsthand observers...