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...what you do in Church. What you do at home is something else," Virginia began the rambling essays she wrote for her boarding-school teacher. "When you are little and ugly somebody carries you in church on a pillow, and you come out a child of God and inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. They pour water on your head and that's a sacrament. When you are twelve you walk back in yourself with your best dress and shoes on, and you walk up to the Bishop, and he stands up, and you kneel down, and he mashes...
...Inheritor. General Dynamics was put together in barely five years by John Jay Hopkins, an audacious, hard-living lawyer turned financial genius, who started off in 1947 with Connecticut's venerable submarine-building Electric Boat Co. as his base. Acquiring companies left and right in an effort to span the entire range of military hardware from submarines to missiles, Hopkins ran General Dynamics with scant organization and largely by the force of his own personality. This month, in the first of two articles called "How a Great Corporation Got Out of Control," FORTUNE relates how Hopkins, aware that...
Promised: Challenge. Did the President, in his off-the-cuff answer, mean to say that freedom will inevitably win? Is 20th century American democracy, shining inheritor of Western Christian civilization, invincible if its citizens just continue to practice democracy...
Because of Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, inheritor of his father's incendiary nature, the Dickey initiation of 1891 was extremely unfortunate. (Firey radicals make such poor clubbies...
...Heart is much like watching the village idiot for a couple of hours--the experience can be amusing, but it leaves a strangely bitter after-taste. The pitiful "hero" of the play, Uncle Daniel Ponder, is in fact a sort of village idiot of a small southern town. The inheritor of a vast estate, he grew to middle age without ever growing up. He spends his time playing with the local children, but some obscure loneliness finally drives him to marry a backwoods girl he picked up in a soda fountain. When the girl, who is even more childish than...