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Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, took as his subject "Truth in the Fine Arts." Decrying the instantaneous loss of past values and memories, Jones defined the Fine Arts as "Man's gallant protest against oblivion...
...dangerous game, in which both sides recognized the stake. In a gesture as gallant as it was spectacular, Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew in to blockaded Berlin to address the city government. "Threats," he told them, "are the stock in trade of those who lack confidence. Calm and resolution are the mark of those who seek peace. We know that you Berliners have the right to be free and that we have the right to be with you here." The allied Foreign Ministers, Eden added pointedly, had-just reaffirmed in Paris that "any attack against Berlin from...
...when France's armies were in full retreat, a gallant young officer tried almost singlehanded to stem the German advance. Time & again he flung his motorized squadron through the enemy lines. A machine-gun blast shattered his left arm, and he fought on. Soon afterward, a grenade ripped off the wounded hand. A night later, his arm amputated, the young officer shinnied down out of a military hospital window and escaped. Thus crippled, he parachuted into Nazi territory to carry on the fight underground. A grateful nation later rewarded Captain Antoine-Pierre-Etienne Chalvet Bauny...
...kissing and hugging, reminiscing about adolescent trivia, delighting in the vast disorder of their house, and still honoring the obsolete cult of the Southern Lady? Most of The Family is a quarrel-by-quarrel account of a North-South marriage; the rest is a sympathetic picture of the gallant but slipping Olmsteads. As a study in regional contrasts, Author Ivey's book is persuasive; but it is too long and slow, and its main theme need not have been worried quite so much...
...granted the right to hold a rally occasionally? Perhaps such an affair may not come within the bounds of freedoms which this country cherishes so sacredly, but then is such police action, as I witnessed, so tolerated by a democratic society? Maybe the Pogoists are Communist inspired and the gallant Cambridge police thwarted a threat to American independence--I rather think...