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This week, making his longest journey north from Rome since he became Pope, Pius XII visited the new transmitting station, now Vatican territory, and pressed two buttons to start the transmission. Then he spoke the first words to be broadcast: "Hearken, ye people from afar (Isaias 49:1) let all give ear. From the Vatican Radio's new station, above which rises high and victorious the cross, symbol of truth and charity, 'our mouth is open to you' (2 Corinthians...
...word "religious." In its pamphlet distributed to teachers last week, the Ministry of Education refers to learning about Talmud and Torah, tallith and tefillin as "inspiration from the glorious past of the Jewish nation." This sedulously secular approach, many teachers in religious schools think, dooms the program from the start. Said one teacher: "Sacred matters are being treated as if they were small change. The children will be confused and unimpressed...
Over burgundy and brandy at Boston's Parker House in May 1857, there occurred a rare fusion of good minds and venturesome money. In ten hours at table, eight Bostonians agreed to start a magazine "devoted to literature, art and politics" that would "endeavor to be the exponent of what its conductors believe to be the American idea." Thus was born the Atlantic Monthly, whose first issue, edited by Poet James Russell Lowell, appeared 100 years ago this week. Eight editors, 1,200 issues and some 100 million words later, the Atlantic is the second oldest magazine of ideas...
...February 1927, Reporter James Thurber quit his $40-a-week job on the New York Evening Post to start work as a $100-a-week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker. Thurber was then 32; The New Yorker had just turned two; and Editor Ross, at 34, was already the whip-wielding crank who was to inspire and bedevil staffers until his death in 1951. In the November Atlantic Humorist Thurber started a serialized memoir of Ross by recalling their early days together...
...were destined to fit together like 4th and July, but they got off to a strange start when Ross hired Thurber as his managing editor. ("In those days," explained Thurber last week, "you started at the top and worked your way down.") Ross affected to despise writers; Thurber wanted only to write. "He wanted, first of all, to know how old I was, and when I told him it set him off on a lecture. 'Men don't mature in this country, Thurber,' he said. 'They're children. I was editor of the Stars...