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...source of delight to me to find TIME [Jan. 23] giving the sport spotlight to amateur wrestling via "Bethlehem's Champ." It is refreshing to see such an article in the welter of stuff and nonsense intended to promote, rather than discourage, the utterly stupid "rassling" that callous promoters continue to foist on the naive public...
...defending against the eggheads of evolution they were ready to do that, too (six Baptists were on the Scopes trial jury). Neither priest nor church nor neighbor might come between a Baptist and his God. This could lead to a deep personal religion, and it could also produce a welter of small, off-beat sects, e.g., the Duck River, General Six-Principle, Primitive or Hard Shell, and Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. And all this spiritual nonconformity was often matched by an ironbound, triple-riveted social conformity, designed to keep everything and everybody in its place-especially...
Surprisingly, in this welter of private imagery, a handful of steadily developing artists have managed to battle their consistent way to recognition in top international competitions. This year the Carnegie jury confirmed the growing reputation of two painters...
...techniques of welding and brazing are taught in high-school shop courses throughout the U.S.; the materials, iron and steel, can be found in any junkyard. The inspiration for many of the new space concepts is as easy to find: in the confused welter of the modern cityscape with its forest of TV aerials, bridges, air-raid-siren platforms, metal scaffolding and skyscraper girders. In the hands of U.S. sculptor-welders, this new handling of space has resulted in a myriad of styles from a long roster of native talents...
...total picture which emerged from the welter of uncomplimentary testimony was that privately endowed, tax-exempt foundations use their educational and humanitarian activities as a cloak for a vast scheme to undermine American life...