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...WBBM, for its Report Uncensored (TIME, Aug. 11); to KXAR, of Hope, Ark., for outstanding public service during a flattening tornado; to Washington's WQQW (TIME, Jan. 20), for The Children's Hour, the best children's program, and to Minneapolis' WCCO, for As the Twig Is Bent, a youth rehabilitation series. The U.N. "Network for Peace" wins a special commendation for its United Nations Today...
Ordeal of Anger. Janet Lewis' setting is Denmark in the middle 17th Century and her writing, as clean as a peeled twig, traces a clear outline of a dark Scandinavian story. The fearless Pastor of Vejlby, Soren Qvist, prayed God to relieve him of the passion of anger. But when the insolent Morten Bruus asked for his only daughter in marriage, Soren hurled him to the ground. The title of the novel refers not only to the actual trial of the Pastor for murder, with which he was eventually charged, but to the spiritual ordeal that preceded...
...ruined, as it was in the late '20s, by pegging the pound too high. Even though revaluations of more than 10% would still require Fund approval, some economists groused that the Fund's chief club against the practice of "exporting unemployment" had now been whittled down to twig-size. But it was an easy concession for the U.S. to make. With wages and other costs skyrocketing, the U.S. might wake up any day and find its own dollar priced too high, might want to devalue it to boost exports...
...backward U.S. country districts last week (and not-so-backward ones, too), "water witches" paced solemnly, holding forked twigs of peachwood, hazel, willow or witch-hazel, the butts pointed upward. Some muttered incantations; some prayed; some were intensely silent. At last the twig swung downward or spun around wildly...
With emotions somewhat like Noah's when the dove brought the olive twig to the Ark, Romans learned last week that the first civilian train since the armistice would soon chug down to Naples. It will take the Stella Roma (Rome Star) twelve hours to make the 135-mile run that crack trains used to make in less than four hours. But to Italians, who for a year and a half have known the isolation, despair and hunger that follow the collapse of a highly developed technological civilization, the wail of the Stella Roma's whistle would seem...