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...this embarrassingly worshipful biography, Eugene Lyons has set out to portray "the warm, whimsical, and tender Hoover . . . the very human and deeply humane Quaker behind the solemn façade." With a convert's zeal, rightish Political Journalist Lyons, a onetime fellow traveler, also tries to give a more favorable version of Hoover's administration. It is a hard, loving, earnest try-but it doesn't quite come...
...bill was the Mundt-Nixon bill, introduced by South Dakota's Karl Mundt (who is now up for election as a Senator), and largely written by California's Richard M. Nixon, a lank, earnest Quaker attorney. It had come to the floor of the House from the Un-American Activities Committee...
Service Seminars will be run this season from Maine to Oregon, with four located in New England. Application for any of the seminars may be made through the Quaker House at 5 Long-fellow Park, with preference going to graduate students and men interested in world peace...
Cambridge's Quaker House has issued a call for students at these seven-week "International Service Seminars," where college men from all over the world convene to "learn together, live together, and serve together." Edward Mason, Dean of the Public Administration school, and Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, have been signed for the Seminars' faculties...
...PHILADELPHIA, Clarence E. Pickett and the American Friends Service Committee laid plans for spending the Quakers' $20,000 share of the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Nov. 10) to improve relations between Russia and the U.S.-probably by methods suggested by a recent series of Quaker-sponsored newspaper ads: immediate peace talks, strengthening of the U.N., and "a new effort to arrange the exchange of students, writers, religious leaders and industrial workers...