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The magazine was often hard to read, but-like Croly's tortured editorials, written in an agonized longhand-served its high purpose for 15 years: "to goad public opinion into being more vigilant and hospitable." When Editor Croly died in 1930, his paper went from bluestocking to parlor pink...
Episcopal Departure. New York's Episcopalian Bishop, the Right Reverend William T. Manning, may sometimes have looked to laymen like a U.S. Archbishop of Canterbury, but he is too solid a churchman to make that mistake himself. * His unerring knowledge of the rules and his uncompromising adherence to them...
Last week, nasal sprays were no joke for Silent Tom Smith, the man who developed Seabiscuit and this year trained Cosmetic Queen Elizabeth Arden Graham's top money-winning stable ($512,454 in purses). New York's vigilant Jockey Club, having found some dopey spray in one of...
Perhaps our leaders do not trust us plain people enough. Can it be we want to be more vigilant, more self-sacrificing, than they dare ask? Do they mistake groans and grumbles from a soft and noisy minority for a real revolt of the people against rationing and wartime controls...
Sternly pleading a vigilant peace, an enduring remembrance of the miracles of comradeship and cooperation which war has taught, this beautiful film reveals the full meaning of its title only at the very end, when the commentator repeats Sir Francis Drake's prayer: