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Enterprise or Ideas. "Philanthropy is an American habit," he wrote, "and the modern foundation is an American invention." Its aims: "To make human beings healthier, happier, wiser, more conscious of the rich possibilities of human existence and more capable of realizing them . . ." It is true that a foundation must exercise careful judgment in selecting the studies and scholars it wishes to support. But having done so, it must treat the doctrine of the free enterprise of ideas as inviolate. In its 43 years, Dollard continued, the Carnegie Corporation (which has spent $253 million to improve public libraries, educational standards...
Clearly, he has kept working. Behind the Indians' fine pitching staff, Wynn, Lemon, Garcia, Feller & Co., he almost always turns in a creditable performance. At the plate he is always a threat. In all pennant-hungry Cleveland, there is no happier sight than Al Rosen, firmly established in the batter's box. The ball steams in, his hips swing in a fast little shake, his left leg lifts for a quick thrust forward, and the big bat whips around. It has connected often enough to make him the league's second-ranking batsman, after his teammate Bobby...
...sense, he hit a responsive chord, for as far as all Republicans were concerned, any ending would be happier than a prolongation of the agony...
...thrust upon us a dilemma not easily resolved. In the present international situation our security measures exist, in the ultimate analysis, to protect our free institutions and traditions against repressive totalitarianism and its inevitable denial of human values. . . We share the hope that some day we may return to happier times when our free institutions are not threatened and a peaceful and just world order is not such a compelling principal preoccupation. Then security will cease to be a central issue . . . there will be no undue restraints upon freedom of mind and action, and loyalty and security as concepts will...
Since Gouzenko evidently preferred it that way, the government finally decided to let him go ahead on his own. Nobody was happier than the Mounties. For some time now, assignment to the temperamental Russian has been regarded as one of the "punishment" duties on the force...