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...terms which present-day Protestantism had all but forgotten, the Pope re-echoed the Council's appeal to non-Catholic Christians. He appealed for the return to the Catholic faith of all who believed "in the principal divinely revealed truths." When Christians outside the Church of Rome observed, he said, that the Church "remains firm in the faith, powerful in its works, enriching all men without distinction of race, creed or color, then they, it may be hoped, will . . . sense a desire, implanted deeply in the heart of every man, for that necessary union with Peter and his successors...
...Vansittart [TiME, July 16] conveniently "forgets" to take into account the fact that the "Germans" of whom Velleius Paterculus wrote were the people who lived in northern Europe in the land which then included not only present-day Germany but also the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, northeastern France, Austria and part of Czechoslovakia. These same "Germans" make up the Saxon element of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and it seems to me that the English must be not a little proud of their drop of Saxon blood since they constantly refer to themselves as "Anglo-Saxons...
...average U.S. girl looks with her clothes off' was shown last week by Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The name of the girl is "Norma." She is a sculptured composite of 15,000 present-day U.S. women, aged about 18 (see cut). The museum's anthropologists exhibited her in Natural History to show the evolution of the U.S. female figure toward a taller, lustier type...
...Looking quite like a fashion model dressed for the present-day street is a terracotta figurine of the 4th or 3rd Century B.C., A Lady Dressed for the Street...
Terrible Incubus. Julian was spellbound at the wonderful simplicity of this social order. Few present-day readers, having observed the results of state collectivism in practice, would be so uncritical. Edward Bellamy's present (and first) biographer. Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, is also a distinguished visionary: former president of pioneering Antioch College and onetime chairman of TVA. He readily admits that Bellamy's projected social system "would result in actual regimentation" and, if administered by the wrong officials, "might be a terrible incubus on society." But Looking Backward was a warmhearted vision which unquestionably speeded social reform...