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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shanghai's powerful city council-addressing the Communists as "gentlemen" instead of "bandits"-radioed its peace appeal direct to Red headquarters at Yenan. Peiping and Tientsin, completely isolated by Red armies, followed suit. The press burst out with reports that U.S. marines were leaving their base at Tsingtao (where they had been training Chinese navy personnel). The report was quickly denied by Washington, but it was nonetheless true that plans had been made for their withdrawal. From all sides, pressure increased on Chiang Kai-shek to retire in favor of a Chinese leader more acceptable to the Communists...
...York, Father Gannon made it clear that he still hopes Fordham will have no part of plans (such as are called for by the President's Commission on Higher Education) for still more greatly increased college enrollments. His remarks ended with a typical Gannon snapper: "Instead of accepting more & more as the number of applicants increase, we intend to screen our students with more & more care . . . Unless we have this type of aristocracy . . . our Jeffersonian democracy will soon be a Russian rubble heap...
...fact that TV children's programs are so generally good is regarded by most parents as a happy byproduct. What matters is the revolution caused by TV in pre-bedtime habits. Instead of racing noisily through the house, kids now sit and stare and listen in sober silence. It may or may not be good for the children-but it is certainly a welcome change for mothers & fathers...
There is nothing modern about modern church statuary. Roman Catholic churches everywhere are filled with mass-production plaster replicas that perpetuate igth Century traditions of prettiness and molasses-smoothness. One reason is that few parishes can afford to commission sculptures on their own. Instead they buy from manufacturers catering to a safely low denominator of public taste. In Paris, a row of shops along the Rue St.-Sulpice supplies the demand. In the U.S., it's Barclay Street, in downtown Manhattan...
...Proto" for "Plomb." Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co., which closed its plant after a U.S. district court ruled that it was illegally trading on the reputation of Philadelphia's Fayette R. Plumb, Inc. (TIME, Dec. 6), reopened-with a new trademark. Instead of "Plomb," it was now "Proto." Plomb President Morris Pendleton, who is appealing the decision, said the new trademark was just a temporary expedient (estimated cost: $130,000) to resume business. "We have been handed a lemon," said he, "so we are making lemonade...