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...wrote, "without being fully aware of how much safer it is to prophesy disaster than to venture to express a hope. It is safe to be gloomy. If one prophesies disaster and it happens, one has been a true prophet. And if it does not happen, one is readily forgiven and may even suggest that but for the warning the disaster would have happened...
Last week, at 64, Gene Howe was rounding out 50 years in the newspaper business with a four-day open house at the Globe and News's new million-dollar plant. Above the main entrance was his one-line journalistic creed: "A newspaper may be forgiven for lack of wisdom but never for lack of courage...
...Disappearance indicates that if Author Wylie has not entirely forgiven his old whipping girl, "Mom," he has at least come around to the chivalrous belief that the weasel in her life is "Pop." It also indicates that Crusader Wylie takes his new thesis pretty seriously: men & women are already badly divided, and it may be later than the world thinks...
...technique equal to his ideas. It is refreshing to hear a pianist who uses his technical proficiency for musical purposes only, and not to dazzle the audience. There were occasional fluffs, but in view of the tremendous task Aitken has set for himself, they can easily be forgiven...
...Francis, without St. Ignatius! Men will not live without vision; that moral we do well to carry away with us from contemplating, in so many strange forms, the record of the visionaries. If we are content with the humdrum, the secondbest, the hand-over-hand, it will not be forgiven...