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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking as a loyal and devout Catholic, I was as much astonished as anyone else at the decoration of William Randolph Hearst . . . and very happy to know that I am under no obligation whatever to agree with our Pope in this matter...
...Rather than simply winning "a Hollywood Oscar" [TIME, Sept. 19], ex-Sergeant Harold Russell, National Commander of the AMVETS, won two at the same time . . And no one ever deserved them more than did Russ, who is a constant inspiration to all who know...
...Says the University of Washington's Dr. Lauren Donaldson, director of the AEC-sponsored investigation at Bikini and Eniwetok: "What we have found, up to 1949, is that radioactivity still contaminates Bikini after three years. The quantities of radioactivity are minute, it is true. But we know that the activity is being circulated about the lagoon and is being retained and concentrated in the tissues of fish, animals and plants. We also know that these concentrations can produce radiation of sufficient intensity to form a hazard to health and life...
Lost in the Stars, as many of you may know, is based on Cry, the Beloved Country, the recent best-seller about white-Negro tension in South Africa. The TIME account was of a touring exhibition of South African paintings and sculpture at the National Gallery in Washington. Conspicuous in the show, said TIME'S Editors, were the vivid works of G. Sekoto, the only Negro artist included, who had taught himself to paint in Johannesburg, then left his native land to study in Paris, only to find poverty and despair, to attempt suicide and to be committed...
...Medina (rhymes with arena) had given the jury a long and careful charge. It was a model of lucidity, enlivened by the kind of homely advice which the astute Medina has made a legal stock in trade. "If you once get yourself in a frame of mind where you know that you have a task ahead and it has to be done carefully and it has to be done just right," he said, rocking gently back & forth beneath the Stars & Stripes and the Great Seal of the United States, "then there comes a certain calm and peace of mind which...