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...stage to attest the honesty of Bey's performance spent the ten minutes of his "airless interment" accusing the manager of fraud. He replied that they were all "unbelievers," and when Bey "returned from the grave" and distributed talismans to "ward of evil," the manager's epithet was quite valid. Those who saw the performance from the stage went away unbelieving...
Then came a shocker: "If Nunn May wants to go to Russia, and the Russians want him, there is no general power to prevent a British subject from leaving the United Kingdom, with or without a passport. Nunn May does not have a valid passport. Refusal to grant him one could hamper him, but would not prevent him from leaving...
President-elect Eisenhower's task is to preserve the valid legacies of the Roos velt era and at the same time eliminate the waste, extravagance and bureaucrats with which many have become encumbered. In short, he must introduce businesslike management to what has become, since World War II, the world's biggest business...
Christ in a Pantheon. There are three modern retreats from Christianity into religion. The first, "natural religion," grew out of the optimistic rationalism of the 18th century. It survives as a faith that man's reason and philosophy can provide the only valid moral standards. The second substitute religion is what Casserley calls "comparative religion." Its disciples strip Christ of his divinity and Christianity of its divine mission, but concede that Christianity contains certain "basic" ethical truths. The result: "A Christ who would never have inspired the martyrs ... a Christ who would be quite happy in a pantheon...
...sseldorf, a West German court ruled that the last will & testament of Adolf Hitler, drawn and signed on his last day in his Berlin bomb shelter (April 29, 1945), is valid. The will left his estate to the Nazi Party or the state government succeeding him. Among the losers under the ruling: a Swiss publisher and Frau Paula Hitler-Wolf, a stepsister, who sold the Swiss exclusive publishing rights to the record of Hitler's dinner-table conversations. The result: no copyright protection. A German publisher, out with a pirated edition, can keep right on selling...