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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having read your article on Harold Stassen [TIME, Aug. 25], the writer conducted a one-man poll on the 1948 election. The result -one Republican vote if Stassen is nominated-otherwise a vote reluctantly cast for Harry Truman. PAUL SABINE Tucson, Ariz...
...readers brought up on a diet of "scientific" jargon and Freudian cliches. His readers are a part of the new surge of curiosity about Christianity which in Britain has floated, besides Lewis, a whole school of literary evangelists (T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Dorothy Sayers, et al.). Detective Story Writer Sayers has explained this new interest in Christianity as "spontaneous . . . and not a sort of 'Let's-get-together-and-pep-up-Christianity' stunt by excited missioners, than which nothing could be more detestable. . . . People have discovered by bitter experience that when man starts...
...thing to do is to get a man at first to value social justice . . . and then work him on to the stage at which he values Christianity because it may produce social justice. . . . Only today I have found a passage in a Christian writer where he recommends his own version of Christianity on the ground that 'only such a faith can outlast the death of old cultures and the birth of new civilizations.' You see the little rift? 'Believe this, not because it is true, but for some other reason.' That's the game...
Died. Raymond S. Springer, 64, old-line Republican Representative from Indiana, writer of last June's legislation controlling the export of petroleum to Russia; of a heart attack; in Connersville...
...unusual for a writer to work in the New Yorker offices for several years without once meeting his editor. The elevator men have strict instructions not to greet him by name, lest he be accosted by some tactless writer or artist in the same car. ... He has relatively few friends and a number of enemies of whom he is, on the whole, rather proud. 'A journalist can't afford to have friends,' he is fond of saying...