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...Perish to Death. A Kentucky Baptist preacher's son, Channing Cope went to sea at 15 and didn't get his shore legs back until he was 26; later he was by turns pressagent, lawyer, radio broadcaster and farmer. When Cope put down his first payment on rundown, worn-out Yellow River Farm in 1927, the county agent predicted that he would "perish to death" before he got a living out of it; now, with hired hands doing the work, Cope nets $11,000 a year...
...Life persists in the vulnerable, the sensitive," said the aging artist. "They carry it on. The invulnerable, the too heavily armoured perish. Fearful, ill adapted, cumbersome, impersonal. Dinosaurs and men in tanks. But the stream of life flows differently, through the unarmed, the emotional, the highly personal...
...Television was also viewed with alarm, by religious leaders. Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, in Christianity and Crisis, declared that the immediate effect of TV would be "a further vulgarization of our culture . . . Much of what is still wholesome in our life will perish under the impact of this new visual aid . . ." Niebuhr noted scornfully that "prize fights seem to be the best subjects of television...
Everybody agreed that the two pro leagues would have to make peace or perish, but neither side was prepared for peace. Last week, in Philadelphia, officials of both leagues talked truce for twelve futile hours. The National League's unacceptable terms: add the Browns and 49ers to the ten-team National League, fold up the other six All-America teams...
...says the Times, "or perish. There is no middle way. The structure is too tall, too boldly conceived to be dismantled arch by arch and beam after beam. It must stand or crash . . . The English at present are sleeping as a sailor sleeps after a storm, cast up on the beach, in the sun. But in their dreams they know . . . they will have to rise and go forth . . . One of the great epics of the world is to be played out before us, and played...