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...little Italian hill town of Assisi and started what Danish Roman Catholic Historian Johannes Jorgensen called "the most powerful attempt since Christ to make the world truly Christian." Their leader was a gentle little man who began life as a gay young gallant with a yen for glory-until, riding off to war at 22, he heard a voice ask, "Why do you desert the Lord?" Not long after, Francis of Assisi turned to prayer and fasting. Haled into an episcopal court for selling some of his merchant father's best fabrics to help a poor priest, he stepped...
...napalm drops, from missile launching to night take-offs and landings. One ensign had trouble with his approaches, was waved away three times before making it on the fourth try. Said the President: "Bet the poor kid was crying his eyes out." The Navy was fairly obvious about its yen to get into the strategic bombing business with, but after, the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. In one notable performance, two A3D Sky Warriors (at 41,000 ft., a top speed of over 600 m.p.h.) and two F8U Crusaders (at plus 45,000 ft., an average speed...
Chuang Shang-yen, curator of the Peking Palace Museum collection, and Dr. Han Lih-wu, now Ambassador to Thailand, who supervised the removal of the treasures from Nanking. Proofs of the final selection, made with the help of U.S. experts, were flown back to Formosa for color correction on the spot, and are now reproduced, most for the first time, in ART, Masterpieces of Chinese Art. CALIFORNIA'S political gun slingers were moseying around the state last week, setting up barricades for the inevitable shouting that will break out when Governor Goodwin Knight defends his job against tall...
Greetings & Meetings. Wife Agnes, 37, gave English lessons to the Hiroshima Maidens before they took off for the U.S. for plastic surgery (TIME, Oct. 24, 1955 et seq.), last year taught a course in nutrition that featured 30-yen (10?) meals and American recipes for Japanese dishes. Meanwhile, in between a grueling daily round of meetings, greetings, speeches and luncheons, Fazl has found time to lecture at the university, spends two hours each week giving English lessons to a group of political-science students. He took time off on his 1955 home leave to persuade U.S. colleges and universities...
Into the Air. In 1923 Ben became a U.S. citizen, went on to Texas A. & M., got his B.S. in engineering, an R.O.T.C. commission, and a yen to be an architect. But Depression-time was rough for fledgling architects, and besides, Ben had got a lot of fun walking miles out to the dirt fields near San Antonio to watch the U.S.'s flying cadets putting their de Havillands through their paces. So he applied for and was accepted in the Air Corps flying school, survived the school's average of one crash landing for every 30 hours...