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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What a comparison between Atheist William McCarthy and Bishop William Manning [TIME, Nov. 28] ! The first, a fighter against God; the second, a fighter for God. I am sure that Bishop Manning was fully aware of hypocrisy in high places and evil deeds done in religion's name. But, with a firm belief in the basic goodness of Christianity, he fought and won his battles against evil. Unfortunately, too many of us are like William McCarthy. We see the evil in the church as a sign for us to step out and ridicule it from the outside. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hellish Treatment | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...seems to me," he said in London, after a week of studying the Labor Government's plan at first hand, "that this program is working remarkably well and that it is a good thing for Britain. I can see now that most of the critics of our proposal in the United States have, whether deliberately or through ignorance, tried to mislead the American people on the facts about the British program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WELFARE: Wigs, Spectacles & All | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...first 13 days of its second run in Manhattan's federal court, the perjury trial of Alger Hiss had progressed with a singular absence of melodrama. Whittaker Chambers spent seven days as a witness, much of the time under crossexamination, stepped down with both his testimony and his Buddha-like calm intact. His shocking tale was corroborated as before by his wife and a long list of Government witnesses. Voices were seldom raised; time and repetition had lent a curious matter-of-factness to an incredible affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Woman with a Past | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...basketball squad's first game against the Hoyas, Shepard has cut his squad to a flying squadron of ten men. His road crew comprises the customary starting five--John Rockwell, Ed Smith, Jim Gabler, Gerry Murphy and Bill Hickey--plus Bill Prior, Cliff Crosby, Dick Covey, John Stevenson, and Quent Stiles...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Varsity Cagers to Play in Washington; Yardlings Topple Tech Freshmen, 64-59 | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

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