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Some churchmen cheered when the Supreme Court ruled (Si) for Agnostic Vashti McCollum in her suit against religious education on school property (TIME, March 22). Others, however, were not so sure there was anything to cheer about. Among them were 28 top Protestant leaders, including Bishops Angus Dun and William Scarlett, and Reverends Reinhold Niebuhr, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henry P. Van Dusen and Douglas Horton. They issued a statement deploring the Supreme Court decision, believed that it would "greatly accelerate the trend toward the secularization of our culture." In the current issue of Christianity and Crisis, Professor John C. Bennett...
Some of Swift's best letters and politer verses are included in this volume, and so is the proud Latin epitaph that he wrote for his tomb: ". . . ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit; abi viator et imitare si poteris strenuum pro virili libertatis vindicem . . ." W. B. Yeats, nearly 200 years later gave this inscription a great translation...
Anxious Greeting. Back in Oudjda the local Pasha, 4O-year-old Si Mohamed el Hadjoui, publicly rebuked the Arab extremists for their "irresponsible acts." Later, as the Pasha entered a mosque for evening prayers, a fanatic Moslem stabbed him three times. Arabs joined Jews in stoning his assassin to death. Meanwhile the spark of racial hatred flared in Tripoli, where Arabs killed twelve Jews in another riot...
...Hahn's Seven Laws for education: i) give he children opportunities for selfdiscovery; ) make them meet with triumph and defeat; ) give them the opportunity of self-effacement n a common cause; 4) provide periods of si-snce; 5) train the imagination; 6) make games mportant but not predominant; 7) free the ons of the wealthy and powerful from the ener-ating sense of privilege...
Divorced. By Joan Davis, 35, one of radio's loudest and most expensive comediennes (her contract calls for $10,000 a week): Si Wills, 48, once her vaudeville partner, then writer of her radio scripts; after 16 years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...