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...Having made these points, Juan Trippe then gave the nod to a Senate bill, introduced by Nevada's Pat McCarran, which would establish the "chosen instrument," or federally regulated "community company." Such a bill would also mean the end of Pan Am as an operating agency. But Pan Am's equipment and know-how would form the nucleus of any postwar U.S. combine-at least at the outset...
Detroit, which wears its motormaking prowess lightly, glows with pride over its culture. Last week Detroit's culture got a nod of recognition from hypercritical Manhattan, whose opinion is sought, revered and feared by all U.S. musicians...
...Supreme Court (5 to 4) told C.I.O.'s Roland Jay Thomas he did not have to get an organizer's card from the State of Texas before soliciting union memberships (TIME, Oct. 4, 1943). The Texas registration law, said the court in giving labor the nod, was unconstitutional because it infringed on the rights of free speech and free assembly...
...really rather stupid, but he had "the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet." In addition, unlike many of his successors, he refused to fall into "the error of making a religion of the esthetic." Tennyson's message, concludes Poet Auden, in words that would make Victorian moralists nod approvingly, is not art for art's sake but recognition of the fact that "an art which is beyond good and evil is a game of secondary importance...
...also, by the revelation of a startling statistic which shows Germany's manpower potentially far exceeding any of its neighbors' by 1970, make them realize the importance of a prompt and effective answer. With a graphic explanation of Sumner Welles's partition plan, and a passing nod to the views of Walter Winchell, Lord Vansittart and John Foster Dulles, M.O.T.'s own implicit answer is: "Be stern...