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...hope," said Rector and Headmaster John O. Patterson of Connecticut's Kent School, "that this meeting may be a means of regaining and restating what general education could be within a Christ-centered culture.'' Rector Patterson was addressing a group of theologians and scholars of many faiths who had come for a special symposium marking Episcopal Kent's soth birthday. Now published in book form (The Christian Idea of Education; Yale University; $4), the papers and discussions of that symposium cast fresh light on one of modern education's greatest lacks and needs...
...spite of their many differences, the Kent visitors seemed basically agreed. Education as it stands can never be whole until it finds the proper balance between two great traditions, two kinds of knowledge, and two ways of apprehension...
Soulless Big Business, one of TV's favorite whipping boys, took another drubbing last week on Kraft TV Theater. In a playlet called Success, Actor Kent Smith limned a clean, incisive portrait of an able executive who proves, if nothing else, that the boss is not always right. With uncommon cunning, Executive Smith is squeezed out of the big corporative setup and eased into the humiliating role of a shoe salesman at I. Miller. In injured tones, his social-minded wife (played by Andy Hardy's old valentine, Ann Rutherford) reminds him: "We haven't even paid...
With a nationwide ad blast in the newspapers. P. Lorillard Co. last week announced that it had improved the filter in its Kent cigarettes to give "significantly less tars and nicotine . . . plus easy draw." Though Lorillard did not mention the word "health" in its ads. or Dr. Wynder's specifications, it appeared to meet those specifications. A Kent regular, it claimed, passes 17 milligrams of tar and 1.36 milligrams of nicotine through its filter; the king size passes 21 milligrams of tar. 1.7 milligrams of nicotine (an independent laboratory got slightly higher readings for the tar. lower for nicotine...
...emergency in law enforcement," approved the bill-in a closed-door session of precisely three minutes. ¶ In a 5-to-3 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the right of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to deny passports to Artist Rockwell Kent and Los Angeles Psychiatrist Walter Briehl for refusing to sign non-Communist affidavits. Then four of the judges, putting chips on their shoulders for the Supreme Court to knock off with a Jencks-type ruling, went on to say that confidential Government information can remain confidential in matters of national...