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Behind the blackout curtains, physicists got their work orders. A few, horrified by what was planned, refused the summons. But most went to work, knowing that discovery could not be stopped, that the U.S. and its scientific allies must make it first. Many hoped that they would fail and that...
But the Holy Cross monks' lives are by no means all retreat and seclusion. An early rule of the order was "designed to train every man for what he can do best" and to make him ready for "any sum mons." Best-known summons was the one which called...
It was his last home-front job for a long time. One day in 1942 he had a 6 o'clock cocktail date with his wife. A few minutes before 6 he got a telephone summons from the Navy. Sullivan rushed off, learned that his assignment was to salvage...
"If we truly believe that the spirit lives, and that the corpse is an outworn tent in which it no longer dwells, why not treat it so? But the Prayer Book still commits it to the ground from which it is supposed to come, where it is to rest until...
At the President's summons, ex-War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes came up from South Carolina again last week, twice sat in long conferences with Harry Truman. The visits of the man who had been Senator, Supreme Court Justice and Assistant President to Franklin Roosevelt set political dopesters to doping...