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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A Workable Adjustment. The noted Lincoln biographer, James G. Randall, holds that the Civil War was the work of a "blundering generation," stirred up by "fanaticism" and "warmaking agitation." Other "revisionists," e.g., Professor Avery Craven of the University of Chicago, argue that slavery would have broken down of its own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tragedy of History | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Three years ago, when he first got his Young People's Records, Inc. started, he asked questions in schools, children's centers, and in his own home (three children), to get an idea of what children want to hear. From three-year-olds he got reactions such as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: You Take Nice Jumps | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

At Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute last week, the year's handsomest cross section of current U.S. painting went on display. It was the last of the institute's national surveys; next year the Carnegie will go back to its international annuals which were interrupted by the war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Made in U. S. A. | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

News, the county sheriff found the body of a murdered woman in a snowdrift outside the city. Presbrey recognized her as Elsie Lanage, a friend of his own father-in-law. Presbrey took his suspicions first to his city editor, then to the sheriff. The Daily News got the inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Paul Prowler | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Whirling Discs. But Kant's hypothesis was not entirely discarded by astronomers. Recently, armed with a vast amount of detailed knowledge that Kant did not possess, modern astronomers have busied themselves reconsidering his theory and plugging holes in it. Last week, in a Chicago lecture, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Beginning | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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