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Not only did Edward demand of his friend such constant and lavish hospitality that his financial ruin was inevitable, but he made him the butt of more & more brutal practical jokes. Through it all, through ridicule, poverty, and obsolescence, Christopher remained a faithful paladin, faithful unto death, which he incurred...
This week, after dawdling 14 days, the Finns cautiously accepted Stalin's handwritten summons to a talk about a proposed pact of mutual assistance which might end Finland's freedom. Last week from Helsinki TIME'S John Walker cabled:
After Czechoslovakia, Finns thought their turn had come. Last week, Finland's aging (77) President Juho Kusti Paasikivi received a handwritten letter in the scrawling script of Stalin. It was a polite but imperative summons which Finns construed as the end of their uneasy, nominal independence.
Clearly it is not a faith for the tender-minded. It is a faith for a Lenten age. Even those who fail to follow all the sinuosities of his reasoning must sense that, whatever else he has done or left undone, Niebuhr has restored to Protestantism a Christian virility. For...
Professor Prosser seemed to sense that he "was going to be served with a summons," said Poindexter, "and he knew about my coming marriage. So he called me up to the podium and gave me $5 'for a wedding gift'," and the constable gave Prosser the snmmons.