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...pacifist because he would rather spend taxes on schools and other internal improvements than on supporting a very modern army. But how are the schools and other internal affairs to be protected from outside invasion? Does he want us to become a country of pacifitsts, a ripe plum of easy picking for any other country in the world today? The leading American statesmen of today realize that isolation is no longer sufficient to keep us out of European politics and wars. If isolation is to be no longer enough protection, then we must have some protection. Like most militarists...
Famed "Little Anne Bullitt," who in Moscow kept a cat named Revolutzia while her father was Ambassador there, has now grown up into an almost young lady (see cut), ripe to apprehend the magnificent achievements of French civilization and appreciate the Lucullan dinners of her gourmet father in Paris. Anne was born in Paris...
Last week a U. S. magazine of ripe years and rich reputation came to an end in all but name when Life was purchased by TIME Inc. With its November issue now on the presses, that civilized funsheet will, after 53 years, cease to function as the good-humored critic, the caustic commentator on the U. S. scene, will pass into the realm of great things gone forever...
...works the great historian-artist-philosopher set out to contrast, the unity of the middle ages with the individualism of the present day. Neither was written for general consumption but rather as an intellectual exercise for the author's peculiar benefit. They are thus full of ripe personal wisdom and illumined by the brilliant yet wary genius of the man Adams...
...Baltimore and in 1916 gave her age as 22 when she married Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., now commander of the U. S. Aircraft Tender Wright, from whom she was divorced in 1925. Thus the King and Mrs. Simpson are the same age, 42, and Mr. Simpson at 39 is ripe to receive at His Majesty's hands knighthood, a baronetcy, a peerage or one of the historic Court offices...