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...AGAINST OBLIVION-Sheila Blrken-heod-Macmillan...
...break in the ranks of your uniformed covers to let the world have a glimpse of a truly great and timely hero. Such recognition of men of science or art ought to be increased. What they contribute is immeasurable and yet they have all too often remained in oblivion while every schoolboy is taught history in terms of battles and their leaders, regarding their exploits as the ultimate in human achievement. A surer road to peace for the future would be the encouragement of youth's devotion to the more constructive leadership of the healers, the builders...
...Helmet. Alexander is indifferent to heat, cold, rain, dust, danger and food. This convenient oblivion enables him to concentrate on tactics and strategy and a quiet craze for physical fitness in his troops. No matter how eccentric his dress, he usually looks neat as a pin and sharp as a tack...
Interim Threats. Meanwhile the Nazis-were busy announcing to the world that Portsmouth, Plymouth, Bristol and the Port of London were "bristling-positively crammed to the bursting point-with all manner of invasion equipment." The German radio also threatened to bomb all these concentrations into oblivion...
...poorest jobs with the richest material that any literary executor has ever done. This poet (or someone writing for him) said what Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will sink into oblivion, without leaving a landmark to tell that he once existed; or, if he is spoken of hereafter, he will be quoted as the unfaithful servant who abused his trust. The poet: Edgar Allan...