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...world's unwritten common law: "If there is no law now under which to try these people, it is about time the human race made some" (TIME, Oct. 21). Perhaps the most striking of several legal opinions, diligently gathered by Keenan, was one by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo (1934): "International law . . . has at times, like the common law within states, a twilight existence during which it is hardly distinguishable from morality or justice till at length the imprimatur of a court attests its jural quality. The gradual consolidation of opinions and habits has been doing its quiet...
Compiled in order that the General Education experiment progress at rapidly as possible through "full discussion of its merits and defects at each stage," the report was lauded by Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government and chairman of the Committee on General Education, who affirmed that "those who are conducting the courses will particularly welcome the criticisms, both general and specific...
Grand opera, like port wine, is a commodity the English are in the habit of importing. No Englishman has ever written a successful opera, though young Benjamin Britten's may one day make the grade, (TIME, Aug. 19). Even good English opera singers are rare. London has long been without a topnotch opera company...
...Possible. Byrnes's two chief helpers are Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, a handsome, alert careerist who acts as his Russian adviser-translator, and Benjamin V. ("Ben") Cohen, once mu:h the better half of F.D.R.'s (Thomas G.) Corcoran & Cohen team. Cohen, an idealist, is classified in what Washington calls the N.C.L.-non-Communist left. Byrnes likes to recall that he was an idealist once, himself. "In 1918 I was a follower of Woodrow Wilson. I gloried in his idealism and in the magnificent effort he made to build the peace upon the Covenant of the League...
...Minor Football H--Edward A. Bacon, Jr., Jerold P. Bahn, William E. Boucher, Jr., William J. Brady, Jr., Dana F. Bresnahan, Robert D. Byrnes, John S. Carnes, Israel H. Chilcott, Jr., John S. Coolidge, Fred C. Donahoe, James B. Draper, Jr., Captain David J. Farrell, William R. W. Fitz, Benjamin H. Fortner, Bayard S. Forster, Melvin Freedman, Peter Fuller, Justin E. Gale, John C. Grady, Alexander L. Grant, Jr., Charles C. Graves, 3rd, William S. Harrison, Peter G. Harwood, George H. Hill, Ellis D. Hodge, Paul C. Kelly, Osmund O. Keiver, Jr., John C. Loos, Jr., Charles G. Loring...