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...BOOK COMES complete with Miller's homespun philosophy: "We need more Presidents who have run from fights and admit it. We must run from more fights. That's our only hope." Plain Speaking could do with more probing of Truman's personality and less banal simplicity...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Talking with Truman | 4/10/1974 | See Source »

Neuendettelsau is small (pop. 6,000), but it boasts the widely respected Augustana Theological University, a Lutheran hospital, and a Lutheran institute. Pastor Betzner, renowned for his homespun sermons, had raised church attendance and tripled the number of communions in his six years there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: From Luther to Rome | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...night and soft-selling them by day to housewives in Boston. He eventually recruited an army of Fuller Brush Men and "Fullerettes" that today numbers 25,000 and sells 325 varieties of household brushes, cosmetics and chemicals all over the U.S., Canada and Mexico. According to Fuller's homespun philosophy, " 'American' terminates in 'I can' and 'Dough' begins with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 17, 1973 | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...boyhood, and even Chuck would delay his account sometimes. In the hiatus between crack of bat and disappearing home run, Chuck was ruminating. Only when he was ready would he ejaculate, "Go to war, Miss Agnes." (While my point is correct, this is an exaggeration. Thompson reserved that homespun judgement for only the most momentous occasions, like back-to-back homeruns by the Robinson boys...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Weiss Up | 10/19/1973 | See Source »

...unusual combination of the scholarly and the homespun," Freund said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A. Sutherland, Legal Scholar, Is Dead at 71 | 3/10/1973 | See Source »

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