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...spirit that led to his teaching encyclicals and the "opening to the East." It was a Roman Catholic editor, William Buckley of the National Review, who dismissed Mater et Magistra as "a venture in triviality." Pacem in Terris was coolly received by Catholics in northern Europe, where one leading statesman last week characterized his Pope as "a very good priest but a bad politician." Right-wing Italian Catholics-shocked by the big Communist vote that followed closely on Pacem in Terris and John's well-publicized visit with Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei-dubbed John "the Red Pope" and sneered...
...cannily refused the confining job of faction leader of the Gaullists in order to establish him self as Mr. Fixit for problems throughout the country. Under the spur of Debré's competition, Pompidou is now functioning more like a politician and less like a banker turned statesman. In nationwide broadcasts, he has proved to be a relaxed, avuncular performer and has displayed wit as well as competence in the National Assembly...
...followed showed that the type casting of some twenty years had kept back a real talent, but Bogie's popularity fell when he ceased to play the symbol. At the time of his death in 1955 he presided over his own rather sophisticated "rat pack" as a Hollywood elder statesman...
From the dais at the anniversary dinner, Editor in Chief Luce introduced a group of cover subjects with personal citations. Among them: A liberal statesman, one of TIME'S first employees, our first Washington reporter at $10 a week, the Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge. For many years our badly unpaid adviser on religion, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, distinguished president of Union Theological Seminary. A brilliant, alltime-great district attorney, one of the very great governors of the state of New York, a tough fellow in a fight, and a good loser, Thomas E. Dewey. The only...
Died. Van Wyck Brooks, 77, critic, literary historian and elder statesman of American letters, a deeply reflective, painfully slow writer who is best known for his massive, five-volume Makers and Finders; A History of the Writer in America, 1800-1915, which took him 20 years to write and spans American literature from Washington Irving to William Faulkner; of cancer; in Bridgewater, Conn. As a critic of his culture, Brooks argued that much of American writing was second rate, that U.S. materialism thwarted genius, and that the true fulfillment of America is yet to come. That it would come...