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...view of these facts TIME offered recently to department stores in 31 American cities which have symphony orchestras a display called TIME for Music. From our standpoint, this display is designed to call attention to TIME, to our Music department and to our advertising pages. It is a quiz consisting of 24 enlargements of TIME covers, with the cover portrait replaced by famous composers from Bach to Gershwin. Attached to each cover poster is an excerpt from a story in TIME'S Music department-but omitting the composer's name. With the excerpt as a clue, passers...
...Krug concluded: "From the standpoint of preserving both the national security and our standard of living, our economy in general is physically capable of providing the resource requirements of a considerable program of foreign aid. . . . [But] with or without a foreign-aid program, this country faces a pressing urgency for expanding its conservation practices . . . for preserving the fertility of its soil and the future of its forests.. . . and for extending its efforts to discover and develop new sources of supply for many of its basic raw materials...
Your review in the Sept. 29 issue of Robert S. Allen's book Lucky Forward is the first authentic evaluation of General Patton from the combat soldier's standpoint I've ever read. You bet he wasn't known to the line soldier as "Georgie." It was just plain "Pat-ton." You bet it was "our blood and his guts" as far as combat troops were concerned! A general's position is too remote to make him a hero to his men. . . . We did respect Patton but only as hired help respect any reportedly competent...
...attention to some form of official Catholic intolerance, with the assertion that it is Christ Himself who is under attack, and that only disloyalty to Christ could have prompted the criticism. There is a curious pathos in this performance; for the bishops could hardly understand that from the Protestant standpoint it is precisely this unqualified identification of Christ with the historic church which is the root of all Catholic heresies and the cause of Catholic intolerance...
...have to make the best defense we can of our most cherished social and historical values against ruthless foes. But from the standpoint of our Christian faith we have to view such struggles in another dimension. ... A contest of power between two great blocs of power in the world obscures the moral issues involved in the struggle and creates a vicious circle of mutual fear, from which there is no easy escape. We do not suggest that there is some simple pacifist solution for these mutual fears, created by power contests...