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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archbishop James, who had been serving as the ecumenical representative to the World Council of Churches, is a close friend of Douglas Horton, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, who commented that "churches in Christendom can be happy with the election. The Archbishop is a very fine person...
...adolescence, on the other hand, was dismal. It began to matter that she outweighed her contemporaries. As W. G. Rogers says in his book, When you see this remember me Gertrude Stein in person, "The normal adolescent girl, busy with playmates, clothes, parties, school lessons, does not read Wordsworth, Scott, and other poets, a set of Shakespeare with notes, Burns, Congressional Records, encyclopedias; she does not absorb Shakespeare nor pore over Clarissa Harlowe, Fielding, Smollett, and a tremendous amount of history." Strangely, she already feared that there would not be enough books to fill her lifetime...
Because of Dulles' peculiar administrative habit of running the State Department as a one-man show, no one can completely act as a substitute Secretary carrying out Dulles' policies and attitudes in every respect. Even if there were such a person, an Acting Secretary cannot command the prestige necessary to be an able forceful representative of the United States in the Big Four conference on Germany this spring...
...Council voted down an order which would have requested the MTA to notify it of any intention to sell the Cambridge earbarns to Harvard. It also rejected an amendment to the order which would have asked notice of intention to sell the property to any corporation or person...
...grain ration was cut in China's cities and the lowly cabbage was put on the ration list for the first time. Since then, laundry soap has been added to the list and the monthly sugar ration has been slashed to slightly more than half a pound per person. In the great port of Canton there is a shortage of fish; in Shanghai, meat is all but unobtainable...