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Orator Fosdick, no scientist himself, tried hard to be optimistic: ". . . This telescope can furnish our stricken society with some measure of healing perspective. This great new window to the stars will bring . . . into fresh focus the mystery of the universe, its order, its beauty, its power. ... Adrift in a cosmos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Knowledge & the Danger | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

"The Greatest of All . . ." In Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, strapping, 17-year-old George Kalman, once a Hungarian, rolled up a sleeve, displayed the blue, tattooed numbers of the concentration camp on his arm. His hardest problem in the U.S., he said, had been "to adjust myself to being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRANTS: Not Just Numbers | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Winston Churchill's advice to Conservatives leaving for the U.S.: "When you get there you have to forget this Socialist Government of Great Britain. It is the government of Great Britain, and you do not criticize it. But when you get back, you make up for lost time." Author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Lowdown | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Early Years. He grew up on his father's farm. At the university he rapidly became the biggest man on campus, earned money as a grocery clerk, bakery pan-greaser, sleeping-car conductor. He was an above-average student, president of the student body, senior orator, member of Sigma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: STASSEN | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Members of the Class of 1948 will go to the polls tomorrow to choose a ten-man Class Day Committee and a Class Day poet, orator, ivy orator, odist, and chorister.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Will Elect Ten to Class Day Group Tomorrow | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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