Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor Brazil's new President Eurico Gaspar Dutra. Both sent distinguished representatives to his inaugural-the U.S., Fiorello H. LaGuardia; Argentina, Vice President Juan Pistarini. Both sent their best warships. On the sleek, British-built cruiser La Argentina (6,000 tons), President Dutra received the collar of San Martin. Aboard the mighty carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (45,000 tons),he watched 75 warplanes roar into the air, but got no medal. Both the U.S. and Argentina scheduled-the same evening-lavish embassy receptions. President Dutra solved that problem by attending both, became the first Brazilian President to set foot...
Born. To Mayris Chancy Martin, 34, distaff side of the la-de-da Chancy & Fox dance team, Eleanor Roosevelt protégée whom Congress waltzed out of OCD in 1942; and Hershey Martin, 34, San Francisco orchestragent: their first child, a daughter; in San Francisco. Name: Anna Eleanor (for Mrs. R., godmother...
Thomas Mann's opinion of Martin Luther (TIME, Jan. 7) is of little importance; but . . . Mr. Mann knows perfectly well Luther was referring to the pillaging, ravaging, raping and murdering rabble and he was incensed that honest peasants had been forced into the devilish confederacy...
Your Dec. 24 issue under Religion carried a reference to a U.S. Army chaplain who, finding the little Waldensian congregation in Cerignola without a pastor, took charge of it and "for a whole year exercised in that place a brotherly ministry. . . ." The man referred to was Chaplain Martin H. Scharlemann of the 43rd Air Service Group, which had its HQ in that town, and of which the undersigned was the historian...
Actually, not Kierkegaard but German Philosopher Martin Heidegger (a Nazi from 1932-34), begot Existentialism. Heidegger's ultimately cynical subjectivism rather than the Danish prophet's Christian profundity determined Sartre's concept of man's responsibility: "Man is free to act, but he must act to be free. If he fails to choose a social or political line of action, he is not a Being; he is Nothingness." Should, by chance, Christian ethics permeate man's action, Sartre does not mind-not because it is Christian but because it is moral...