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...Behold, I am thy servant, prepared for all things; for I desire not to live unto myself, but unto thee; and O that I could do it worthily and perfectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Imitation of Christ | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...down his sword & shield. Said Eisenhower: "If this were a land where the military profession is a weapon of tyranny or aggression-its members an elite caste dedicated to its own perpetuation-a lifelong soldier could hardly assume my present role. But in our nation the Army is the servant of the people ... Hence, among us, the soldier who becomes an educator . . . enters no foreign field . . ." Eisenhower was going to see to it, he said, that Columbia remained a bastion of freedom: "Only by education in the apparently obvious [fundamentals of freedom] can doubt and fear be resolved . . . There will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The General Takes Command | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...Civil Servant. In Holyport, Buckinghamshire, England, superstitious Postmaster James Thomas delayed delivering 13 congratulatory telegrams to newly weds Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lancaster-Burgess until he could compose a 14th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...trouble is that in its Tarkington-esque aspects, the show is completely lacking in genuine remembrance, ease and spontaneity. The cyclists are pretty to look at, but as artificially gay in spirit as so many madrigal singers. As a Midwestern servant of the early 1900s, Pearl Bailey is about as believable as Salvador Dali's autobiography, but she does whatever she does with such queenly conviction and emphasis that she is by all odds the best thing in the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Mary of Scotland," another Hepburn revival, shares the bill. Except for a superb scene of the murder of her faithful servant, played nicely by John Carradine, this historical gumbo is leaden and deadly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bringing Up Baby | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

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