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TIME's General Manager is fond of saying that magazines are like people: they are born and they die, and those live longest which most readily adapt themselves to their times. We like to think that TIME has changed and grown with the world it has reported for twenty years-and twenty years from now I will be very much surprised if our table of contents is not quite different...
...reinstate Harris-so that Harris could quit before he was fired. Cox apologized saying that the bounce had not reflected on Harris' "ability as a baseball manager." Harris very decently told his ex-players to do it for Fitz. They did, breaking the eleven-game winning streak (longest in either league) of the world champion St. Louis Cards...
...provocative novels. Last week Novelist Forster, who has never written a novel since, found himself the subject of an unexpected revival. Two of his earlier novels (Howards End and Where Angels Fear To Tread) were reissued by Alfred A. Knopf. Two others (A Room With A View and The Longest Journey) were reissued by New Directions. Novelist Forster and his work were analyzed by Columbia University's Lionel Trilling in the first important For ter study in English...
...Longest Journey Forster despises his hero, Gerald, because Gerald is a prig and a bully. But he gives to Gerald's death "a kind of primitive dignity" by describing the servants who wept: "They had not liked Gerald, but he was a man, they were women, he had died." In A Passage To India, Cyril Fielding, who as a bachelor bravely opposed Anglo-Indian snobbism and narrowness, becomes snobbish and narrow himself when he marries and becomes an official. Dr. Aziz changes from the sensitive, enlightened Indian to an impudent, cocksure babu...
...formation of Liberator bombers, their exhausts glowing red. For 70 minutes they "buzzed" the city, bombing warehouses, railroads, docks. Most important target was the big oil refinery. As the bombers winged homeward to their Australian base, flames from the refinery could be seen for 140 miles. It was the longest raid of the Pacific war-2,400 miles round trip...