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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week drive at Radcliffe for social service volunteers ended Monday, although applications for positions will be accepted during the term. One hundred ten Annex students signed up, only nine short of last year's original figure...
Besides the campaign for volunteer workers, the 'Cliffe Community Service Committee has outlined the Community Fund drive for the beginning of December and blood, clothing, and book drives with Phillips Brooks House later in the term. This year's community fund campaign will permit the students to choose their individual charity for donations...
Eighteen-year-old Denise Chambon was one victim of the annual bac (baccalaureate exam) and trac (student term for butterflies in the stomach) that thousands of French youths (and anxious parents) suffer through each fall. Looming at the end of seven years of intensive secondary schooling, the bac orals are the big hurdle for French schoolgirls and boys. To the 65% who pass, success means a bachot certificate and eligibility for entrance to a university or employment in many civil service and professional jobs effectively closed to non-baccalaureates...
Creation, writes Barth, is grace. All created things are kept from a state of nothingness only by God. But the "whole realm we term evil-death, sin, the Devil and hell-is not God's creation, but rather what was excluded by God's creation, that to which God has said 'No.' And if there is a reality of evil, it can only be the reality of this excluded and repudiated thing, the reality behind God's back, which He passed over when He made the world and made it good." Thus, evil is nothingness...
...Democratic Party helped put Harry Truman in the White House; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis. As a St. Louis party whip, Hannegan backed Senator Truman's renomination in the 1940 Missouri primary; as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1944-47). he led the fourth-term fight, persuaded F.D.R. to drop Henry Wallace as running mate and pressured the convention into picking Truman. Rewarded with the postmaster-generalship (1945), Hannegan i resigned his political jobs a year later to head a syndicate which bought the St. Louis Cardinals. He sold his interest last January for a reported...