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VETERANS The Grab In the Senate last week, no Senator rose to defend the President's veto of the disabled veterans' pension bill. The special handiwork of Mississippi's John Rankin and the powerful veterans' lobby, the bill gives $120 each month to crippled ex-G.I.s whose disabilities are in no way connected with their military service (TIME, Aug. 27). The House had already overridden the veto by an overwhelming margin. The Senate promptly followed suit...
...ecumenical team there are new denominational faces, and this may be a major harbinger of hope. Writes Union Theological Seminary President Henry Pitney Van Dusen in the current issue of his seminary's Quarterly Review: "The early development of all the ecumenical movements was very largely the handiwork of 'ecumenical enthusiasts' ('ecumaniacs,' someone has called them) . . . With the domestication of these ecumenical bodies within the churches, their places are being taken by denominational officers. The 'ecumaniacs' are giving place to 'ecclesiastical wheel-horses...
...Billy Budd" is a play of more than average significance and complexity. But even one who has assiduously avoided reading the novel in order better to judge the play on its own merit, cannot fail to recognize the hand of the novelist in what should be the playwright's handiwork...
...build and coloring, his same long face and heavy jaw-but by'no means a twin in looks. The real "phantom" looked at photostats of the checks which had convicted Shephard, borrowed paper from the prison warden and wrote out a confession that the checks were his own handiwork...
...England Poet-Recluse Emily Dickinson was not stingy with her handiwork. After writing her simple but often cryptic verses at her bedroom writing table, she usually sent them off in letters to friends, or attached them to gifts of cakes and flowers for her brother Austin and his family, who lived next door in Amherst, Mass. But the poems that Emily Dickinson liked best or thought too personal to share she copied on small sheets of note paper; then she sewed them into little booklets with colored string and stored them away in her cherrywood bureau...