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...Independence, he was met by his brother Vivian and his old crony, U.S. Marshal Fred Canfil (see cut). That night he pointedly stayed away from the Democratic rally in the Memorial Building, instead drove over to Grandview to visit his 93-year-old mother. In his absence Mayor Roger Sermon explained the facts of life to Harry Truman's puzzled fellow citizens. "He'd give his right arm to be here tonight, but there are some things he can't do. He must preserve the dignity of his office...
...hymnology this was a considerable improvement, but the services at St. Paul's were more memorable for a really impressive prose passage from the Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon...
...presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party ("I got drunk when I was 16 . . . have been ashamed ever since") ; and Mrs. Lily Galloway, 60, California temperance leader; both for the second time; in Columbus, Ga. Cried ecstatic Mrs. Galloway: "Brother Willie's life is more like the Sermon on the Mount . . . than any other man I've known." Chuckled the groom: "I'm blending romance with religion...
...Sylvia Sidney and Robert Young preached an, angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats in Lillian Hellman...
This week, in a sermon called "Communist Dynamics and the Hope of Peace." the onetime Methodist minister drew a badly needed, clear-cut line between liberalism and Communism. Said he: "Communism is a sincere but psychopathic attempt to adjust the life of man hurriedly to the world of the machine. . . . Its fatal defect is that wherever its principles are applied man loses and the machine wins. This is inherent in the nature of Communism because its faith is not in man but in social mechanics...