Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinguished-looking man of 84 who had once (1897) been a Texas county judge. The son of a Methodist minister, he was inordinately proud of his Scotch-Irish background and of the fact that his ancestors had fought in every North American war since the Revolution. At one time or another, he had run a chain of banks in Texas, a gas company, a cotton exporting firm, a flour mill, a steel company, a ranch and 38 Mississippi plantations on which he had found...
...Asiatic origin." It must promise to teach "through every medium possible . . . Christianity and the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races." Jewish students would be banned, added an Armstrong spokesman, unless converted to Christianity. To nail it all down, old Judge Armstrong demanded a new five-man board of trustees, provided that he would name three of them himself. Among his candidates: old (75) George Van Horn Moseley, onetime major general in the U.S. Army, who had once trumpeted that "the finest type of Americanism can breed under [Fascist and Nazi] protection...
Furthermore, said Harris, college graduates could expect their salary advantage (over non-college men & women) to dip even more than it has. In 1940, the college man earned about 32% more than the American average; by 1948 he was making only 10% more. "The time may come," warned Harris, "when, on an average, the college-trained worker will earn less than the non-college worker...
...like ailing, white-haired J. S. Hancock, who had got up from his bed in Alexandria (La.) Veterans Administration Hospital, trekked more than 100 miles to attend. Said Hancock: "When I'm not feeling too keen I can think of these songs and feel better . . . You know a man that will sing these gospel songs won't be a bad man...
Spade-bearded Ivan Mestrovic is a man who puts strong feelings into his sculpture (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948), and has plenty left over when he has laid aside his mallet. Last week Mestrovic received an urgent invitation to return to Yugoslavia, where he was born and made his fame. The invitation came through Fellow Sculptor Jo Davidson, who had recently completed a bust of Marshal Tito, and it was from the Dictator himself. "Tell Mestrovic," Tito had said, "not to be a fool. Tell him to come back." The expatriate sculptor's blunt reply: "Too many of my friends...