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...Gerecke, of the German Lutheran Church, intoned a prayer (which the prisoners repeated after him): "Over an ocean of hatred, His forgiving love is spread. . . . We may die at His side. . . . Lord Jesus, You have descended to human pain and felt death. You will not abandon us. Have mercy on us. Forgive us our sins. . . . We come from the erring . . . from the misery and the guilt of earth. Let us remain with You for all eternity...
...Wallace asserted that the U.S. is demanding that all other powers abandon research into the military uses of atomic power until the U.S. is satisfied that the control system "is working to our satisfaction...
Thus the conference ducked its most immediate problem: what to do in the 1946 elections. It vetoed a third party, for the time being, at least; it refused to endorse the Democrats specifically. But whether they liked it or not, the progressives would find it hard to abandon the party of the convention heroes: Henry Wallace and Franklin Roosevelt...
...perilous adventure lay before Terry and the Pirates-and the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate would be right in on it. Milton Caniff, Terry's creator, was going to abandon them for a $100,000-a-year job with Marshall Field; the News Syndicate would have to find a new artist capable of carrying on. Last week, a month before Caniff's contract ran out, the successor was announced...
...women came to hear Doreal talk of "onement with the universal mind" or "full illumination," and to be bound together by the "thaumaturgic power that was exercised by Christ and his disciples." Members of any faith were welcome, were not required to abandon their previous beliefs or their minor vices. Leader Doreal supplied them with his own interpretations of the Gospels...