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TIME consistently supplied the best background for the camp information center I established, and for the numerous lectures I delivered. I cut out many articles of particular interest to me and brought them home for fur, ther study. TIME'S "synoptical" arrangement, world-wide news content, clever commentaries and ingenious style; the outstanding biographies...
...penetration and subtlety with which these characters are handled will be moving even to readers who share none of the background. The author, François Mauriac, 61, has as great an international reputation as his fellow Catholic, Georges Bernanos (TIME, Oct. 14). A collected edition of his novels is being brought out in England, and several U.S. publishers are thinking it over...
...nobody knew. But last week Founder Brown warned the maiden class that journalism somehow must jack itself up above the level of novelty, shock and violence. "Unless we brilliantly improve our skills and techniques," he said, "we face ... a crisis of meaninglessness. Innumerable brief reports, presented without perspective or background, can only drive the reader into a mental fog. . . . We must lift our sights...
...medium of partition--the division of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. Jewish aspirations towards Palestine, based partially on historical and religious feeling, became a nightmarish necessity with the coming of Hitler and the death camps. They have so far failed to materialize, but viewed against the background of the Palestine problem and the new partition plan, these hopes can shortly be realized...
...Deck. Emanuel's cloak-&-dagger manner and his name (his mother merely liked the name Victor, had no thought of Italy's ex-King) have caused some to suspect him of having an exotic foreign background. Actually, V.E. is as endemically American as flapjacks and maple syrup. He was born in Dayton, the son of a wealthy utilities man. It was a wonderful time and place to grow up in. Only two doors away Charles F. Kettering was working on a magical invention that would start autos automatically; Orville Wright skittered around in one of the first airplanes...