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...Mother says only, 'You were born when people were harvesting' "). After eleven years of schooling, he formed an ambition: "We have 3,000,000 people in Nyasaland and only 22 university graduates. Nobody has ever earned a degree from an American college. I want to be the first...
...Plough and the Stars (by Sean O'Casey) stands in the very first rank of modern plays. Among O'Casey's own, only Juno and the Paycock can challenge it; but though Juno has more memorable characters and richer comedy, its tragedy is dented with willful, stagy melodrama, where in The Plough and the Stars, tragedy and comedy are locked in an unshatterable embrace. In The Plough O'Casey found, if no better materials for tragedy, then an apter moment. Under the stress of turbulent historic events, amid the gunfire and bloodshed of the 1916 Easter...
Getting the Blake proposal off the ground against the gravity of 500 years of Protestant fissiparousness would be something else again. Possible first step: appointment of a committee by the general assembly of the United Presbyterian Church next May to draft a more specific plan for later consideration...
...first time in its ten-year history, the National Council of Churches last week elected a layman as its president.* At its fifth general assembly in San Francisco, the council chose Joseph Irwin Miller, 51, a rich man (his personal fortune is estimated at about $50 million) who has dedicated his life to putting the camel through the needle...
...Strad. In Columbus, Ind. (pop. 20,658), Miller is a substitute Sunday school teacher at the 350-member North Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He is also a Rotarian, a faithful worker in the local Chamber of Commerce, a Republican. Before Businessman Miller turned to his family enterprises, he first earned a Phi Beta Kappa key in Greek and Latin at Yale, took his master's at Oxford, served as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II. He also learned to play the violin, manages fair Bach on his Stradivarius...