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...jostling horde of photographers fired flashlights at him and bawled, "Hey King -one more!" Ship news reporters asked him what he thought of teen-age dating (he said, in the immaculate public-school accent he had learned at Britain's Harrow, that he didn't know anything about it) and whether he was going to get married (he had given the matter no thought). When he announced that he was a Dodgers fan, the newsmen cried incredulously: "Why?" "I understand," said Feisal politely, "that they are one of the more important teams." Through it all he veiled...
...Mildred Younger, a 31-year-old Los Angeles housewife, presided over the civil-rights subcommittee with an intelligent, calm hand, asked witnesses piercing questions which showed that her political experience extended far beyond the chicken-patty circuit of most women politicians. The daughter of a California lobbyist for public-school teachers and the wife of a lawyer, she was no stranger to proceedings of this kind. Said she: "I was two years old the first time I went on the floor of the legislature at Sacramento...
Vocation or Fellowship? The opposition of many Protestants to religious instruction in public schools is a case in point. "If we choose to ignore the public-school system as an avenue of religious instruction so as to 'keep the Catholics out,' then in effect we allow secular theologies to become the source of meaning and motivation for the public-school system." And, warn the editors of Social Action, "we have very few social principles which can be taught in their full meaning without reference to a religious tradition...
...once an undistinguished Secretary of State and an even less distinguished Justice of the Supreme Court. He knows the temper of his state. He and South Carolina's legislature are cheek to cheek on the question of "white supremacy." They would abolish the state's public-school system rather than give up the segregation of Negroes and whites...
...Browning Version. Michael Redgrave as an English public-school teacher burdened with humiliating failure until Playwright-Scripter Terence Rattigan helps him to straighten up (TIME...