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With the announcement yesterday that W. H. Auden, the English bard, will be the Poet at the Phi Beta Kappa commencement exercises, while Byron Price, well-known journalist, will be the Orator, plans for the first post-war commencement began to take on the promised air of pre-war dignity...
Filipinos had come to know Manuel Roxas well. He had once been a general with MacArthur, and was liked by the U.S. military. He was a member of Jose Laurel's puppet government during the Japanese occupation, but resisted all efforts of the Japs to take him to Tokyo...
Last week students of the phenomenon were given a valuable specimen of the Monsignor's art: a record album (Angelus Recording, $6.75) containing eight of his best speeches. Protestants who felt they could safely risk exposure to Sheen's preachments could satisfy their curiosity. Catholics could admire the...
The Communists paid no heed, held out implacably for government by parties in an all-powerful Parliament. Their most incisive, ironic orator was tubby Party Secretary Jacques Duclos, who cried: "Perhaps some fear that the first party of France [i.e., the Communist, which has about 25% of the voters] may...
Stalin might, as Trotsky wrote at the end of his preface, completely lack "the qualities of the historic initiator, thinker, writer or orator." Nevertheless, he knew how to make history, knew how to grasp and manage the forces, if not the ideas, of whose conflict history is the expression. No...