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...looking for. The first Champ Clark, the grandfather for whom he was named, was a Missouri Congressman for 26 years, for eight years was a powerful Speaker of the House, in 1912 was the strongest contender for the Democratic presidential nomination against Woodrow Wilson. TIME'S Clark grew up in the shadow of the Capitol, while his father. Bennett Champ Clark, was two-term Senator from Missouri, later judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. For a rare professional view of a Congressman fulfilling his constitutional function (and Champ Clark's 31st TIME cover story), see NATIONAL...
...Kans., then drove with Mamie in his bubbletop limousine 24 miles through sizable, friendlier crowds to home town Abilene (first visit in four years), he showed much more of his famous, warm, arms-up humanity. In Abilene, in the small white frame house in which he and his brothers grew up, Ike happily showed Mamie how the family had used an old cradlelike dough tray in baking bread...
...this sordid story, Author Wright hammers away at the brutality, based on fear and hatred, that the white world visits on the Negro. By this time, even Expatriate Wright should know that his picture is too crudely black and white: he writes as if nothing had changed since he grew up in Mississippi. But there is still so much truth in his crude, pounding, wrathful book that no honest reader can remain wholly unmoved...
...world outside the Vatican seethed with anticlericalism and glowed with humanist confidence in the ever onwardness and upwardness of history. Today the papacy and the Catholic Church are immensely stronger. Part of the story is told in numbers: during Pius XII's reign, Catholics throughout the world grew from 388,402,610 to 496,512,000 despite attrition in Iron Curtain countries. The church's strengthened spiritual posture was marked by the fact that under Pius 33 saints were canonized,*more than under any other Pope in this century. Its political success can be judged from the fact...
...project grew out of a feeling on the part of some of the students that they were missing a large part of the academic life of the Medical School by having to waste time each day commuting...