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...honestly liberal. There is as much danger today from those whom one authority calls "dogmatic modernists" as from the traditional rock-ribbed reactionary. For liberalism in an approach, an attitude of mind, a way of life which meets an issue fortified with knowledge and intelligence, shorn of prejudice, and willing and anxious to make a decision and carry it through...
...Second Avenue El, the old approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge, and the liner Normandie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1946). So they expected no trouble when they bought the decommissioned battleship New Mexico for $381,000 (original cost in 1917: $17,348,200). But last week as the New Mex, shorn of her power plant and with holes bored in her big guns, was towed from Boston toward Newark, trouble hit her like a spread of torpedoes amidships...
Louis Armstrong had forsaken the ways of Mammon and come back to jazz. Shorn of his big (19-piece), brassy, ear-splitting commercial band (TIME, April 29, 1946), he was as happy as a five-year-old with his curls cut off. Billy Berg's neon & chromium Los Angeles jazz temple wasn't big enough to hold the faithful who thronged to welcome him back...
...searched the country round about for an explanation of the crash. They soon found a part of the answer. A quarter of a mile from the crash they found pieces of the plane's tail surfaces. Almost certainly they had been torn off in flight. What had shorn them off? CAB inspectors were not yet ready to say at week's end. Many an airplane pilot guessed that a propeller had failed, that a blade had hurtled back and cut into the tail surfaces. This theory had to be discarded when all the DC-4's propeller...
...earth, no amount of silly broadcasting will enable them to realize these facts." Thus, in the House last week, cried rang-nosed Representative John Jennings, up from the hills of eastern Tennessee. The debate was over the State Department's budget, from which an appropriations subcommittee had shorn $31 million requested for the Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs...