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...laymen have felt that the context of the New Testament obscured, if it did not confuse, the words of Christ. One of them was Leo Tolstoy, who made his own translation of the Gospels; another was Thomas Jefferson, who made his own (somewhat arbitrarily eclectic) anthology of Christ's words...
...McDonald had really always wanted to go back to farming. At 62 he made up his mind to do it. He hated towns. "Jefferson was right when he said that cities were evil [population of Sallisaw: 1,500]." But the two things that made Old McDonald maddest were the way Oklahoma farmers refused to plant anything but cotton, and the way they let their fields erode. He detested cotton worse than sin, and erosion more than murder. He said so in church and out. "All of this here," he told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies...
...arrival of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Marshall, et al. to serve as defense counsel returns the case to a legal level. Their ghostly talents permit them to gather evidence unobserved. The case is a pushover. Of no help whatsoever is another shady defender named Henry Bartholomew Smith (James Conlon), volunteer private in Washington's Continental Army, who, having helped free his country, is through taking orders from generals whose commissions have expired. While the great men squabble over oldtime politics, he observes dryly to Bookkeeper Holden: "Now do you see why it took us seven years to win the Revolution...
Tags. At Camp Blanding, Fla., a sergeant summoning Privates Leo Meunier, Leo Meunier, Rene Meunier and Rene Meunier, none related, simplified matters by calling them L.P., L.Z., RJ. and R.R. At Jefferson Barracks, Mo., a roll-calling corporal called Privates Zlvelachoski, Korczykowksi, Svidunovich, and Squrtieri as best he could...
...colleges waited 125 years before they took Thomas Jefferson's advice: > Princeton next month will launch courses in Political & Military Geography and Military History & American Defense Problems, dealing not only with the war but with the peace to come. > Dartmouth has a new course for upperclassmen in Modern War Strategy & National Policy. > Published this month is a course of study-War and National Policy (Farrar & Rinehart)-soon to be used in many colleges. Written by historians at Columbia and the Institute for Advanced Study, it has already been adopted by Princeton and Dartmouth, is under consideration by Columbia, Rutgers...