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...professional standards, and yet it is very important that editors have the courage to print the work of promising, but as yet unpolished, authors. However, the reader of the winter Mosaic ought to humble himself before the rampant audacity of the editorial board that has chosen to print Jonathan Shay's I'm Here, Are You There? The editors deserve blame because they, as men in some command over their intellects, have allowed a person with none over his to expose his inadequacy in public...
...Graves explained it last week to the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, a battered brass cooking pot can have baraka, but not a new spun-aluminum one; an old pair of trousers may have it, or a poem, or a wonderful one-hoss shay...
...relying on mythology as well as science, he accepts, wisely, no blame, since mythology has given him many of the insights that make his History a continuously startling experience. So long as science and mythology are used as "a carriage-and-pair and not a one-horse shay," he sees no need to apologize. On a much more serious level. Toynbee admits to errors that are basic to his entire scheme. He admits that using Hellenic civilization as the model by which to judge the decline and fall of others is a mistake. It leads him, in fact, to recast...
Albania. Premier Mehmet Shehu (pronounced Shay-who) is a 47-year-old soldier who won his military spurs in the Red-led Garibaldi Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, got his final polishing at Moscow's Voroshilov Military Academy. The son of a mullah, Shehu is the only satellite leader who speaks English, which he learned during childhood studies at Tirana's American Vocational School. Despite his soft speech and crisp good grooming, Shehu is known as the "Butcher of Albania" for his bloody suppression of anti-Communists as boss of Albania's secret police...
...comeback champion of U.S. business so far in 1959 is a horn-handed engineer who has a word of Art Shay advice for every faltering firm: "You must compete in areas where you are prepared to compete." With this credo, Harold Eugene Churchill, 56, climbed to the presidency of Studebaker-Packard Corp. and led the company back from the brink of bankruptcy. Unlike other auto chief executives, Churchill does not compete as a supersalesman or financial whiz. He came up as an oldtime, dirty-fingernail mechanic, who still loves to tinker under an open hood. Realizing that S.P. could...