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Unless Americans breed with more science and less abandon, declared tireless Walter B. Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty), five generations from now they will be "the stupidest great-great-grandchildren of the stupidest great-grandchildren of the stupidest grandchildren of the stupidest children of parents now living...
...Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen, 74, a bright-eyed grandmother who records the folk tales of her native Norway. (In 1911, while teaching school, she wrote them down in a book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon.) She had been telling the tales to her students and grandchildren for years but did not record them until 1944, and then for the Library of Congress. When RCA Victor heard the records, it hired...
Christmas is Bill Green's biggest day. His six children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren move in. The happy president of the A.F.L., who buys toys all year for the occasion, is the lord of all he surveys. He decorates the tree, hands out candy and nuts to the hordes of old friends, miners, businessmen, who call...
Kentucky's old (72) ex-Congressman Andy May stood up in a Washington federal court last week and proclaimed: "I have never tasted liquor, wine or beer . . . if I go to jail my grandchildren will drop out of college." The two Garsson brothers appealed for mercy too. Henry Garsson made a speech; Murray Garsson wept softly. The Garssons had been convicted of giving May bribes of $53,000 while running a shoestring into a $78 million munitions combine (TIME, July 25, 1946 et seq.); all three faced maximum sentences of six years, fines of $30,000. Judge Henry...
Said Father Alexander: "Your grandchildren may see the center of power in the world go around to the East. If we give its people the best of our Christian tradition, and not the combination of Christianity and 19th Century politics which they have for the most part been handed, the Orient may become a great democratic power. The Orient needs a democracy whose rights are protected by religion against the likelihood of degenerating into a dictatorship. The opportunity for Christian missions there is seven or eight times-in some places 100 times-what it was before...