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...Eugene Smathers, Big Lick, Tenn.: "The greatest weakness of the church is its institutional self-centeredness. [By] seeking to save its own life instead of losing its life in the service of men, it is gradually becoming impotent...
With week-by-week regularity, a baby-faced golfer and a sawed-off miler have made the other boys feel like giving up and going home. Last week, they took one last lick at winter pickings...
...last week U.C.L.A. trainers were delighted with the result. As they had hoped, the new game discouraged gentlemanly reticence; baskets and ball merely offered an incentive to slug the other man before he could get in his jaw-jarring lick. Best of all, it was giving trainees a practical demonstration of an ancient U.S. Navy tenet: the best defense is a strong offense...
...reason was that when Jimmy Byrnes scotched all reconversion talk, he also scotched a lot of reconversion planning. Today the War Production Board is still in the dark about how many and what kinds of weapons the Army & Navy will need to lick Japan...
Instead of permitting Bone to be a bewildered journalist, Hollywood has converted him into a moody pianist. In the embarrassingly incredible denouement, he ends his unhappy love life at the concert grand of the London Philharmonic as the building burns down around him and the flames lick his face...