Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss of the U.S. Communist Party, and showed him her political information. But her military information, she said, was turned over directly to "the real Russians." Sometimes she and some of her Washington contacts met at the Manhattan apartment of John Abt, onetime Government employee, now a moving spirit in Henry Wallace's Progressive Party (see Third Parties...
Many another staunch spirit was equally unstarched last week. In a quick one-two, Britain's July temperatures had shifted from the coldest since 1901 to the hottest on record at Kew Observatory. On shadeless Dartmoor, escaping Convict Maurice Patrick Murphy gave up the chase and called to his pursuers: "This way, boys, it's too hot for hikin'." While police in radio cars patrolled seaside resorts, pleading with parents to keep their children out of the sun, two prize pigs at an agricultural show in Lyndhurst dropped dead after winning a ribbon apiece...
...erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that Michelangelo, like all great artists, was a genius in mind and spirit as well as in eye and hand...
...Holiday Spirit. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Rausch won a divorce complaining that her husband, who used to beat her only on Christmas, had taken to beating her on other holidays...
...Cash. By putting the emphasis on teaching teachers, Catholic University spread its spirit and methods to the education of almost every U.S. Catholic boy & girl. It was the first Catholic graduate school in the U.S., is still the only one authorized to teach canon law. And it has other claims to Catholic fame: it is the only Catholic college where all orders meet (the others are run by particular orders), and the only one subsidized by an annual hat-passing in every U.S. diocese (1947 take: more than $800,000). The' Pope authorized this collection in 1910 after...