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Last week Pianist Kapell. 31. took off in a British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines DC-6 for the long flight home. Eight thousand miles later, letting down for an instrument landing at San Francisco, the big ship clipped a fog-concealed tree, crashed headlong into the side of a mountain ravine. Among the 19 who died in the flames was William Kapell...
...however, since most of our modern philosophers have turned from a headlong flight into change for the sake of change, the leadership of Adler and Hutchins seems puny indeed. It is now universally recognized that one must know what Plato said, but one must also know how much of it is the purest kind of tommy...
From fixed principles and some prejudices, he rushed headlong in & out of the great foreign-policy debates preceding World War II. He feared U.S. involvement in war as leading to the mastery of the state over the man. Further than that, he saw no national necessity for the U.S. to enter the war. He opposed aid to Russia after the breaking of the Soviet-Nazi pact when Russia was being invaded. "The victory of Communism in the world would be far more dangerous to the U.S. than the victory of fascism," he said then. "It is a greater danger...
...book, A Foreign Policy for Americans. From it emerged his theory of a Monroe Doctrine protecting Europe, the concentration of U.S. might in the long arm of the Air Force, and a world organization founded on world law. It was hastily written, scattered, and not fully thought through-another headlong improvisation, but another example of Taft's ability to put facts together. It was a scathing review of postwar U.S. foreign policy, which had been bold and even brilliant in flashes of desperation, but without any firm core of consistent principle or steady purpose...
...headlong amateur sailor who combined prayer and oratory with his seamanship, he sailed his ketch Nona strenuously and recklessly round the dangerous coasts of Great Britain in a good deal of foul weather, until he was an old man. His wife, an American, had died in 1914; his eldest son Louis was killed in World War I. When his youngest son, Peter, lost his life in World War II, Belloc gave up letters. He was already an old man. He lived on in his Sussex farmhouse, a short, stout figure, red of face, wearing a collar several times too large...