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...world war to slow down William Saroyan's output. Even critics who found his 20-odd books and plays raddled with verbosity and cuteness conceded that they were sometimes beauty-spotted with comic genius. Saroyan, out of the Army now, is 37, a bit heavier, a bit graver, and a well-domesticated citizen of San Francisco. He lives in a two-story stucco house, with wife Carol and two children (Aram, 2½, and Lucy, four months), sprinkles the lawn, and sits at his work desk studying the Racing Form with practiced...
When Jamal al Husseini alighted at the Damascus Gate, cheering Arab crowds pelted him with flowers. A firebrand of Arab anti-Zionism had come home from eight years of exile. Whirling dervishes and fierce-looking Arabs on prancing horses escorted him through the city. Jamal looked older, graver, but seemed to have lost none of his flaming nationalism. The British had brought him back on the eve of the Arab-Jewish showdown. Gratefully, the Arabs welcomed Jamal. Within a few hours of his homecoming the chairman of the Palestine Arab Party, cousin of the still-exiled Grand Mufti, was deep...
Today's issues are graver, and TIME'S letter-writers are correspondingly more concerned about them (e.g., the very heavy volume of thoughtful mail we have received on the atom bomb). Many letters hit us hard, and sometimes we reciprocate-not always by mail. For example: a University of Shanghai professor wrote in recently to thank us for a large map of Manchuria which hit him on the head outside the TIME & LIFE Building during the blizzard of paper that marked the peak of the V-J Day festivities...
Washington has no more solemn chamber than the Governors' Room of the Federal Reserve Building, nor any graver problem than the proposed loan to Britain...
Said Pulitzer Prize Biographer Allan Nevins (Graver Cleveland): "Names of wars are usually inaccurate. What do you say-the Civil War? Or the War between the States, as Southerners say; or the War of the Rebellion, which is the official and rather foolish and unjust name in our records? I prefer the War for Southern Independence. I would like to think this one would become known as the Last...