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Nobody Knows My Name goes on from where Harlem-born Author Baldwin left off in Notes of a Native Son (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955). In the intervening years, his indignation as a Negro and as an American has grown, but so has his intellectual grasp. There is wisdom of a kind in Baldwin's warning that "the South will not change-cannot change-until the North changes . . . The country will not change until it re-examines itself and discovers what it really means by freedom . . . Walk through the streets of Harlem and see what we, this nation, have become...
...explain foreign policy to the Commonwealth." Officials used to his rather dour predecessor, Selwyn Lloyd, were charmed by Home's wit and informality (Home rides up front in official cars, putting the Scotland Yard man in the back). His subordinates were also surprised at his grasp of the issues...
Heloise is the wife of an Air Force lieutenant colonel stationed at Honolulu's Hickam Air Force Base and the mother of two children. Her grasp on good housekeeping is scarcely older than her column. "I didn't know you had to clean a John until six months after I got married," says she. Once, before guests arrived for a garden party, she dressed up brown spots on 'her lawn with green vegetable dye. But her homely hints are usually followed to the letter: when she recommended putting a cup of water inside a turkey to keep...
...parts of the country who were already fairly sure of admission, and the results will be studied in depth. Already, some alumni are protesting the idea of a scientifically-based interview, but Glimp insists, "This isn't strictly scientific; it's just a help to give us a firmer grasp. We're not going to turn interviewing over to a machine...
...some of the basic sources of study in his favorite field. Professor Matthew A. Fitzsimons of Notre Dame says flatly that Toynbee's treatment of the U.S. "is in accurate and distorted, insufficient and indefinite." Yet most of these experts pay homage to his scope, his overall grasp, the boldness of his vision. Relatively, time has been on Toynbee's side. In 1935, reviewing the first three volumes of the Study, the Journal of Modern History sniped: "A Gargantuan feast, shall we say? Or is it hash and not chopped up fine enough at that...