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...becoming ever clearer that the U.S. committed a tragic blunder last August in allowing the Reds to put up their wall through Berlin-and thus to win a test of strength with the West. The fact that the Wall has by now become the most familiar landmark in Berlin only makes the situation more poignant. Last week James Bell, TIME bureau chief in Germany, toured the 25-mile barrier. His report...
Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, Emeritus, whose great work, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, was a landmark in classical studies, died at the age of 73 yesterday morning in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, following injury suffered in a fall. Until his death, Jaeger continued to serve the University as director of the Institute of Classical Studies...
Kaufman, 51, was born in New York City, educated at Fordham, and was only 39 when appointed by President Harry Truman to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Since then, he has presided over many a landmark case, but his most agonizing decision came in a capital-punishment trial in 1951. Before he delivered sentence, Kaufman meditated in a synagogue for an entire day, later fainted while considering last-minute appeals. But Irving Kaufman never wavered in his legal determination that Communist Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg should die for having committed a crime...
...focused on the man rather than the world he terrorized. Shirer writes with dignity, authority and a total lack of adult condescension. Without blinking the problem of evil, he captures the demonic fascination of Hitler, whose life was essentially the success story of a monster. Like most of the Landmark series, this book is for the keen and sober youngster who is ready to put away childish things and become, like every man, a child of the time...
Slowly the sect grew; whole families joined, and the ranks were swelled by the unmarried mothers and homeless children the Shakers took in. Book learning was not their specialty, but their unsparing attention to plain, practical craftsmanship has made Shaker furniture a landmark in the history of design. Visitors to Hancock Shaker Village are shown their graceful, high-backed chairs and the pegs around their rooms, about 6 feet from the floor, on which they hung the chairs when not in use, to make housecleaning easier. Their window frames were held in place by wooden thumbscrews, which permitted removal...