Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this chatter about interplanetary travel began to irritate Novelist-Columnist J. B. Priestley, who wrote in the London News Chronicle: "The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please...
While Parliament considered boosting his pension 800% (to $6,926 a year), Composer Jean Sibelius celebrated a quiet 85th birthday at his home, Ainola, near Jarvenpaa, opened a few presents, including 500 cigars, saw a few visitors, including President Juho Paasikivi, who brought along a present: a solid gold medal weighing about a pound...
...Michigan, 60 Methodist ministers dispatched a message to President Truman and Secretary of Defense Marshall: "Its previous use not having prevented the present crisis . . . and in consideration of the fact that the A-bomb is the extreme expression of violence completely contrary to Christian ethics, we ... register our protest against either the use or the threat of the use of the A-bomb...
Most church architecture in the U.S., writes Journalist Georges Fradier, "may evoke an English cathedral, a Corinthian temple or a bathhouse, but the interior is always the same: that of a third-rate movie palace . . . Varnished benches present a comfortable resting place for faithful buttocks. A drawing-room organ emits sugared water. A pulpit . . . two or three pots of flowers, that is all the decoration. Some temples retain an altar, but this outmoded object serves only to support a still larger number of flower pots...
Readiness through increased productive capacity rather than more stockpiling of soon-outmoded weapons must highlight America's mobilization policy, according to 18 Business School faculty members. In an article prepared for the January issue of the Business Review, the group analyzes this country's economic capacity for the present crisis...