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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reviewing the show, the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock detected strong signs of "Mr. Truman's expanding self-assurance." The President's recent speeches, and his bearing, thought Krock, proclaimed some new beliefs on Harry Truman's part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who's Boss Around Here? | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...report concluded: "On the one side we observed a spirited attempt of the Jews in the various [Iron Curtain] countries to rebuild their culture and their institutions . . . and on the other side the success of the Communist regimes in ... smashing Jewish life, including [the Jews'] instruments of self-government and their very souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: And the Jews, Too | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Rudyard Kipling was right about cats, the dawn-age original of The Cat That Walked by Himself had issued a declaration of independence that all descendants have observed since. But the cats' aloofness and self-reliance have never stopped some people from worshipping them, some people from boiling them in oil,** or generations of artists from trying to catch their inscrutable good looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nine Lives | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Schermerhorn from taking a punch at 64-year-old Newsman Bingay. More than one Detroit newsman wished Stafford had not bothered. Big (205 lbs.) Malcolm ("Bing") Bingay is one of Michigan's best known citizens, but hardly one of its best loved. His autobiography is a revealing self-portrait of an editorial egocentric who made good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bing's Song | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...There is no other intelligence but rationality," continued Muelder, holding that man can be self-sufficient in a rational ethic. He decried intuitional revelations. "Non-rational factors, however, deserve our consideration," he maintained, praising the insight of great minds. Insight must still be respected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hocking, Bridgman Discuss 'Values' | 3/5/1949 | See Source »

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