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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life as a downstairs maid. But one Sunday after church, a preacher shaking hands with her said, surprisingly: "Well, Miss Aylward, God is wanting you." Gladys pulled her hand away and ran down the churchyard path perplexed and a little angered. But back in her servants' quarters, she found that the preacher's words had taken root. She had lost her taste for parties and dancing, and life seemed suddenly meaningless and empty. When she finally spoke to a neighboring minister's wife about her strange new feelings, the lady declared: "My dear, the Lord...
What should be the content of education? Hutchins' answer was simple: there is a kind of knowledge that transcends time & place; there are absolute values such as Truth and Justice, and they can be found by modern man, especially by studying what the great minds of the past had to say about the constant problems of mankind. The purpose of education, he held, is to train minds to be free, not chaotic, and free "because they can understand the order of goods and can achieve them in that order...
...stronger foe. After eleven months of intense prep aration (TIME, Oct. 17), Army did just that to Michigan. Says Blaik: "It's like plotting a military campaign. I get a tremendous kick out of it." Like Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, the master coach, Blaik can be found at his desk as early as 8 a.m. and as late as mid night. Oklahoma's shrewd, hard-working Coach Bud Wilkinson, 34, begins his day at 7:30. He, too, exploits the organization of manpower, but with variations on the theme. For old time's sake...
...Royal Opera House's first Salome of its own since 1936 who could "reflect visually both the cold, fantastic imagery of Wilde's text and the hot eroticism of [the late Richard] Strauss's music." In mustached Surrealist Salvador Dali, he thought he had found his man. Gleefully, producer and designer hatched their plans. Dali wanted to have Salome's brassiere equipped with fireworks that would shoot off sparks at the end of her Dance of the Seven Veils; also to have a flying hippopotamus zooming over the stage for added effect. Both schemes were regretfully...
...economy felt its strike-battered bones and muscles, found only surface bruises. October's industrial production, which the Federal Reserve Board had estimated would fall 11%, had actually fallen only about 6%. With the strikes over (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), production already showed signs of turning up, although the U.S. was still so woefully short of steel that it would take the industry six weeks or more to catch...