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...times like these, one is forced to ask one's self: "What is patriotism?" Some, like the editors of PM, know without asking themselves, but most ordinary citizens are dependent on the definitions of Noah Webster. Yet Noah is so unbelievably inadequate. "Devotion to welfare of one's country," he replies, with an off-hand glibness. Didn't he have room to go into the matter more thoroughly, or was he just plain naive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "In Times Like These" | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Josephine Winslow Johnson (Now in November, 1934); and Grant G. Cannon; she for the second time; in Webster Groves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...other operas to come: The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benet's Faustian tale of a New Hampshire farmer who sold out to the devil, set to music by Columbia Professor Douglas Moore; Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, a deft, bubbling radio opera commissioned by NBC, first given in 1939; Four Saints in Three Acts, with Virgil Thomson's gravely melodious music to Gertrude Stein's nonsensical words; Tennessee's Partner, a Quinto Maganini opera on a Bret Harte short story, which has lain unperformed, unorchestrated since 1934; Aaron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wallenstein's Seven | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Stephen T. Beggs, of Webster Groves, Missouri, and Matthews Hall Class of 1867 Scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 9 Freshmen Given Mid-Year Stipends | 4/14/1942 | See Source »

...semi-finals results were: 155-Parrot won a technical knockout over Parish, 155-Hawkins gained a decision over Webster, 165-Work won a decision over Bartlett, 165-Richardson outpointed Halisey, unlimited-Lyman Knocked out McCaffrey, unlimited-Gardiner won a decision over Ward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT CHAMPIONS CROWNED AS BOXING TOURNAMENT ENDS | 3/13/1942 | See Source »

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