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...happenings at Mrs. Doud's home last week fitted right into the classic American vacation pattern. When Ike Eisenhower gets back to the office he could say, along with many another tanned family man, "We spent our vacation visiting the folks back home...
Spokesman for Industry. Randall's ideas conform to no trite pattern. After service in World War I (he was a staff officer in Harry Truman's division), he abandoned a legal career for Inland Steel, and in 24 years worked his way to the top. In Chicago and beyond, he pulled more than his weight in serving on charity drives, civic bodies and educational boards (he is now an overseer of Harvard University). In 1938, he delivered a Harvard series of lectures on labor strife and civil liberties, in company with veteran Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin. When Harry...
Later, he explained his position: "Herei s one floor for one building, going indefinitely up. There is no building just like this." It is "democratic" in design, unlike the "fascist" pattern of the usual skyscrapers, said he. "This building is neither Communist nor Socialist, but characteristic of the new aristocracy born of freedom to maintain it. The reactionary . . . will not really like...
...whose coming to pass [Hilaire] Belloc prophesied even before the 1914-18 war-key figures posted and ... a whole conditioning process taking place while one looks helplessly on ... More effectively than anything else, [the BBC monopoly] enables those set in authority to impose on the rest of us a pattern of thought and of feeling ... I must confess that escape, even into the arms of J. Fred Muggs, is a delectable prospect...
...proved itself only a novel gimmick. The third dimension, however, is the least thing wrong with Second Chance, a picture with Robert Mitchum and Linda Darnell in the leading roles. According to some touching publicity releases, Bob and Linda are trying to communicate "a love story that is a pattern for faith...