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...Pertinent to your excellent article on middle age are those lines from Chesterton's great epic, The Ballad of the White Horse: "But the hour shall come after his youth,/ When a man shall know not tales but truth,/ And his heart fail thereat...
...Greatest Story Ever Told. "Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat," says the Bible (Matthew 7:13). The latest to go in thereat is Producer-Director George Stevens (Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank), lugging along blueprints for this unwieldy magnum opus on the life of Christ, a work begun some five years and $20 million ago under benign auspices. "In creative association" with Poet Carl Sandburg, Stevens and Co-Author James Lee Barrett begat a script based loosely on Fulton Oursler's bestseller...
...multitude marveled thereat, that the wise old ones who guided these two should have so prevailed with sage counsel and the clear head...
...bill (passed 316-to-0 by the House and certain to sweep through the Senate), promising the U.S. the world's dominant navy by 1946, called for not one new battleship. In fact, the five 60,000-tonners, still in the blueprint stage, are going to stay thereat least for a long time. Their steel is to go for carriers, 500,000 tons of them. Also provided for are 500,000 tons of cruisers, 900.000 tons of smaller ships. Total cost of the five-ocean addition...
...officers or any of their own members; to conduct all elections to fill vacancies in their own number and determine within the limits herein prescribed the procedure for conducting such elections; to fix rules for the conduct of their own meetings and determine the number necessary for a quorum thereat; in all other matters concerning the class and its affairs not specifically mentioned herein, to determine what action shall be taken and to act on behalf of the class...