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...religion he is a devout Episcopalian. In political philosophy he is a New Dealer with a pressing desire for public service and a sense of noblesse oblige. From his days in short pants he has been outstanding for two clear qualities: natural leadership and dogged ambition. In proper balance these qualities should lead to greatness. Yet in practical politics Soapy Williams has somehow not been great There are, in his record, strong indications that he has pawned the quality of leadership to feed ambition...
...clinic in the tiny, tin-roofed Orange Free State village of Thaba N'chu and arrested 60-year-old Dr. James S. Moroka, the respected president of the anti-Malan African National Congress. He asked permission to attend his last patient and they agreed. Then Moroka, a devout Christian and moderate who believes that "white and black need each other," was led off to jail, charged with "promoting the objects of Communism," and released on $280 bail. He appealed to black South Africans to "stay calm and behave with dignity...
...hands and feet in the same spots where Christ was wounded on the Cross (TIME, Dec. 19, 1949). Doctors have examined him and found the open wounds beyond medical explanation. Throngs of pilgrims come every year to make their confessions to Padre Pio and to receive his blessing. A devout and humble man, living quietly in a monastery in southern Italy, he has helped thousands on their spiritual journey. Yet the church continually cautions that he is not to be regarded as a saint. Last week the Congregation of the Holy Office put eight books written about Padre...
...permanent chairman, Massachusetts' Representative Joseph Martin, no Taftman, but the next thing to it: a devout MacArthur...
...folk song with some smoldering blues ("Bury me where he passes by"), switched to a playful chant for "I want to be evil and cheat at jacks," then to the piquant for a French number. Whatever Eartha chose to give them, the crowd paid her back with devout attention. Her nightclub act was proving just as much a hit as her Broadway debut last month in New Faces of 1952, which drew from the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson the fervent report: "Eartha Kitt not only looks incendiary . . . she can make a song burst into flame...