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...more than a Zane Grey to Germany, and more a popular moralist than a popular novelist. May became an authority on the wild West without straying from Dresden (where he kept his Villa Shatterhand littered with frontier souvenirs), and May's West was even nobler than the Lone Ranger's. Old Shatterhand (a German immigrant cowboy) brought Teutonic virtue to the plains, shunning six-shooters in favor of his sledgelike fists...
bluntly lectured a Washington conclave of U.S. broadcasters on the consequences of exporting nothing but "the ideals of Tombstone and Deadman's Gulch." Said Greene: "History has known few nobler or more selfless actions than the generosity which America has shown to other nations during the last 20 years...
...toward securing a just peace. We demand an end to this arms race which leads us toward a world in which, whether in war or peace, none of us will want to live; we demand that steps be taken to reverse this process and to renew the long and nobler struggle--now almost forgotten--for peace and freedom...
...barely traceable midden of an Indian camp. Graves's record of the journey is an eloquent elegy. While the author makes it clear that he finds one era fascinating and the other dull, he does not make the sentimentalist's mistake of saying "that Texans were nobler men in the days of the cattle drives than they are in those of "pink Thunderbirds and patio living...
...REPORTING IN YOUR FEB. 15 ISSUE. IT IS NOT BEFITTING ONE OF THE GREATEST MAGAZINES OF OUR DAY. IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE THERE ARE SET AND KNOWN ETHICAL STANDARDS. THE PRESS HAS GREAT WEIGHT AND IMPORTANCE IN OUR LIVES, AND THEREFORE ITS COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS SHOULD BE NOBLER AND PROPORTIONATE TO THE GREAT RESPONSIBILITY IT CARRIES. TIME HAS AN EVEN HEAVIER ONE DUE TO THE POSITION IT OCCUPIES IN WORLD PUBLIC OPINION. IT SHOULD, IN MY VIEW, ABIDE BY THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF ACCURATE, RESPONSIBLE REPORTING. IT SHOULD SET AN EXAMPLE. THIS I SUGGEST BECAUSE I FEEL THAT...