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...great excuse for deferring the decision. "I have not that gift of prophecy." Last week the President also: ¶ Praised the record of the Democratic 84th Congress in the field of foreign affairs ("I for one am deeply grateful"), but sharply criticized its score on domestic legislation. Ike reread his list of "must" bills, which he had first read to the reporters last June (TIME, July 11). Of the 13 items on the list, he said. Congress had enacted only four, "and some of those, in my opinion, with provisions that were not wise." Of the remaining nine, he said...
...first term, Neuberger failed his course in criminal law, which was taught by Dean Morse. Neuberger asked Morse to reread and re-evaluate his paper. Morse agreed. Together Morse and Neuberger read the examination paper again, and when they had finished Morse decided he had been much too kind, docked Neuberger an additional ten points. Then, in a long conference, Morse urged Neuberger to drop the law and take up journalism. When the young man hesitated, Morse telephoned his father. "This boy's a fine journalist," he said, "but he's no lawyer and I doubt whether...
...Author Leo Tolstoy himself. In Chicago, on the eve of her 70th birthday, the great Russian novelist's daughter, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, confided that her unpredictable father preferred his folk tales and short stories to the eye-straining 687,000 words of his most famous novel. "He never reread War and Peace," said she. "And when he heard us reading it aloud one day, he didn't even recognize...
...Philippines and later Secretary of War under T.R. He went to Africa for a ten-month hunting holiday, on trail of "the noblest game in all the world." Before he got back to civilization at Khartoum, however, he had found time, in the midst of hunting, to reread his favorite author, Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, to acquire a late-in-life appreciation of Shakespeare, and to pass a disapproving critical judgment on Harvard President Eliot's new five-foot shelf of classics ("As the list, it strikes me as slightly absurd...
Last year Engel, 37, read and reread a magazine article on the Marianas Islands and "suddenly it dawned on me: here was a place with real opportunity. Or, to put it another way, there's no competition here...