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...books reflect the warmth of a man who is really grateful for information. He will send copies of his work to scores of people before publication, noting all reactions but not necessarily following suggestions. He refuses to join the high-level theorists in their contempt for interviewers and other spade-workers. Nor will he join in the contempt of the fact-workers for the lofty insights of the theorists. He believes in both, and works at a level between them, using both...
...Anglican Congress and the World Council of Churches, meeting in the U.S., would subject the Episcopal Church to especially searching scrutiny by critical Christians from other lands. The slightest appearance of condoning racial segregation would cast a blight on Episcopalianism in their eyes. Without quite calling an international spade a spade, Bishop Sherrill did his best to explain: "I am convinced that on both the international and the national level the scene has altered radically . . . We live in a time of crisis ... I am certain that the witness of our church must be so clear that it need...
...White House, beforehand, he chatted with a group of war correspondents emplaning on a return trip to the beaches. He joshed the Chicago Tribune's spade-bearded Jack Thompson, whose whiskers are greying now: "There was a lot more brown in that beard." Like any old soldier, he talked of the war and reiterated the old unanswerable question: What did these sacrifices mean? Leaning against his desk, he said earnestly: "The people who know war, those that experienced it . . . I believe we are the most earnest advocates of peace in the world. I believe those people that talk about...
Faithful Husband. But Bogart did more than protest. He proved and reproved his talent in such pictures as High Sierra, Casablanca and To Have and Have Not. With John Huston (who first directed him in 1941 as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, and with whom he has made Treasure of Sierra Madre, African Queen and, lately, Beat the Devil) he gambled both professional reputation and money on his conviction that motion pictures should break away from the trite and the ordinary. Last year he abandoned the security of a 15-year contract (it had eight more years...
...bumbling, well-meaning idiot who is putty in the hands of his wife and family. Latest but different entry in this competition to sell Pop short is a boisterous CBS show from Hollywood called That's My Boy! (Sat. 10 p.m., E.D.T.; sponsor: Plymouth). Dad, as portrayed by spade-jawed Supper Club Comic Eddie Mayehoff, is a middleaged, nine-letter man out of old Rossmore U. whose driving passion is to make a he-man out of his skinny son, a 17-year-old bookworm who gets his exercise by reading without his glasses...