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...month, while fitting shelves in an Atlanta lawyer's office, he laid aside his hammer, turned and said to his boss: "Listen, mister. I'm a fugitive from a Georgia chain gang. I have been for nine years. Now I want to do something about it. I owe it to my wife and children...
When this year's Autumn Salon opened in Paris, 30,000 people crowded in the first day. Nowhere else in the world does art mean so much to so many. And no where else do so many artists owe so much to so few. A thousand painters were exhibited in the show; most of them were followers of the three grand old masters of modern art, Matisse (76), Picasso (64) and Braque (63). The exhibition crackled with cubistic beefsteaks, sparkled with brokenly abstract wine bottles, and blazed with serried riots of bright colors, explosively combined...
...Taylor has the colossal gall to decry democracy, and to compare us to the recreants who planned the mass murder at Dachau. To this I can only say that thousands of us owe our lives to the "brutes" who devised this bomb, and the "monsters" who had the courage to use it. (RDM2/c) R. E. CODY % Fleet Post Office San Francisco...
Last week Harry Truman had some advice for Congressmen, who will have to solve the dilemma. Said the President: "We owe it to those now in the armed forces that they be returned to civilian life with all possible speed. . . . We cannot rely on voluntary recruitment. ... I therefore urge that the Congress continue inductions...
...richest gifts to the U.S., says Harvard's Philosopher-Emeritus William Ernest Hocking, are spiritual. Without its spiritual guid ance, "God knows what religion we would have - possibly Druidism, if we have a Celtic rill in our veins. . . . Whatever forms of religion are alive among us we owe to Asia." "We of the West," declares Novelist Pearl Buck, "need to have happiness restored to us, not through a new spiritual rebirth, but through a plain and simple return [to the Eastern conviction that] what makes a human being happy is to feel himself wanted and understood and appreciated...