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...Shelley and Sir William
...election of Sir William Beveridge to Parliament (TIME, Nov. 20) constitutes one of time's quainter revenges, for Sir William is Master of the Oxford College that expelled Shelley for advocating the ideas for which Sir William is now honored...
...Shelley was dismissed for contumacy. . . . Shortly after his expulsion he wrote A Philosophical View of Reform, a document strikingly similar in spirit and even-at times-in wording to Sir William's famed Social Insurance and Allied Services...
...Shelley stated four fundamental propositions: 1) "That the majority of the people of England are destitute and miserable, ill-clothed, ill-fed, ill-educated. 2) That the cause of this misery is the unequal distribution which . . . has been made of the products of their labour. 3) That the cause of that cause is a defect in the government. 4) That every enlightened and honourable person ought to excite them [the common people] ... to the temperate but irresistible vindication of their rights...
...TIME & LIFE'S 40 war correspondents are newsmen-six of them are newswomen: Mary Welsh, Margaret Bourke-White, Lael Tucker, Peggy Durdin, Shelley Smith Mydans, Annalee Jacoby...