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High Churchman Wand will bring to his new job both scholarship and a firsthand knowledge of a clergyman's daily grind. London will also have a Bishop who speaks his mind. Sample: "If we wish to reform the nation, we must begin at the top with statesmen and politicians. I would like to see us governed by a government truly democratic . . . there should be an end to this outside government where the Prime Minister and his ministers go to Parliament with their minds already made up for them by outside influences...
...massed, marching men in the street; the clattering exhaust of armored scout cars moving past, their machine guns cocked skyward. And the beat of muffled drums. As Franklin Roosevelt's flag-draped coffin passed slowly by on its black caisson, the hoofbeats of the white horses, the grind of iron-rimmed wheels on pavement overrode all other sounds...
TIME'S office in Moscow is a big room with a balcony on the fourth floor of the rambling old Metropole Hotel (ten minutes from the Foreign Office, five minutes from the Kremlin)-and Thompson will find the grind there tough. A correspondent in Moscow is likely to work long & hard, what with few Russian executives getting to their offices before two in the afternoon, and an appointment for eleven at night only too common...
...need a Yalta communiqué to know that the Allies had chosen the place-and probably the time-for the fourth and final ground front: the north German plain. There, perhaps in conjunction with landings from the North Sea, the eastern and western Allies had the same objective: to grind the Wehrmacht between them...
Thus refreshed, the justices faced the biggest docket since 1941. There were 513 cases pending-322 ready for the conference room, where the justices argue and debate, agree and disagree, are finally assigned to grind out the decisions...