Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reputation for risking libel. Pearson gets many of his tips from disgruntled Congressmen or bureaucrats out to knife a policy or an opponent; fellow newsmen often slip him a risky story their own papers won't print. Pearson's stories are slapdash and often inaccurate, but his Quaker righteousness, bulldog tenacity and one-man campaigns (one sent Parnell Thomas to jail) have helped keep politicos and bureaucrats honest...
Categorical Imperative. Vis-à-vis Japan, there were variations of misunderstanding. The Japanese were "polite, industrious little people" until Pearl Harbor, brutal savages until V-J day, have been enthusiasts for democracy since. Warns Maurer: beneath surface "democratization" lurk the fixed feudal habits of centuries. A good Quaker by faith, and no Cassandra, Herrymon Maurer believes the West can retrieve its errors if it recognizes that "other persons . . . must be treated as ends in themselves, not as means to some other...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola's entries for the IC4A track meet in Philadelphia this weekend were out in half yesterday. The government refused to allow ten members to take their selective service tests in the Quaker City Saturday morning...
What do modern Jews believe? To answer this question briefly for U.S. Christians and for Jews themselves, Rabb Philip Bernstein, president of the Centra Conference of American Rabbis, wrote an article for LIFE last fall. Now expanded and published in book form, with wood cuts by Quaker Fritz Eichenberg, Wha the Jews Believe (Farrar, Straus & Young; $1.25) is a lucid and readable primer of Judaism from a cheerfully humanistic point of view...
...Quaker lineup has changed throughout the season, but either sophomore Jim Whitmoyer or Captain Clint Packard has played first singles...