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...relentless prober, tough as a drill sergeant with philosophy students, a hollow-cheeked scholar who despised automobiles and movies (the only movie he ever saw was a documentary on the theory of relativity). But hundreds of students flocked to his classroom to join his lifelong search for truth. Where did the search lead him? This week, a year after his death, Morris Cohen gave his answer in the form of a posthumously published autobiography, A Dreamer's Journey (Beacon Press...
Wieman, commenting on the appointment said, "Our search for the best man available has been nationwide. In Dave Nelson I think we have found exactly the man we want. He fits our situation ideally and comes to us with highest recommendations from some of the country's foremost football...
...friend and there are several good scenes as the two talk about the future and the past, one never believing the other, but never really doubting. His Portrait of Jenny makes Cotton famous, but the girl, now lost, matters more than success and he finds her after a long search in a storm off Cape Cod. But although the artist senses he unreality, constantly commenting on it, the porducer was apparently afraid the point was fuzzy and employed all kinds of trick photography and mood music to accentuate the "message" of the picture...
...died in 1946 with Founder Joe Patterson. To some longtime News readers, it seemed as though the paper had lost the exact formula for Patterson's magic elixir, and was trying to concoct a substitute. Manhattan newshounds speculated that the editors were even poring over old files in search of the missing ingredient...
...search of religious training for their children, more & more U.S. Protestants have been turning to their parochial schools. Last week, at a meeting of the International Council of Religious Education in Columbus, Ohio, Evangelical Lutheran Pastor Clarence Peters of St. Louis submitted some statistics to prove the point. Enrollment in parochial schools supported by three Lutheran groups, Mennonites and Seventh-Day Adventists reached 133,366 in 1947, an increase of nearly 40% over...