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...Protestantism's doughtiest champions-and one of its sharpest critics -is the owner-editor of the nondenominational Christian Century. For 38 years Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison's Protestant polemics have warmed the pages of his vigorous weekly (present circulation...
Against the dragon, Hunger, strode a new knight last week. Out as Food Minister went Sir Ben Smith, a pottering ex-cabby; in came a more dashing champion, glamorous, aristocratic Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey. Of all Labor's hopefuls his was the shiniest armor and the sharpest lance. Impressive showings in the House as Under Secretary for Air had gained John Strachey's advancement to "the stickiest job in the Government...
...rejecting a Communist-sired Constitution for their Fourth Republic (TIME, May 13), the voters of France had given the French Communist Party, second in Europe only to the Party in Russia, its sharpest rebuff since liberation. They had also checked Soviet Russia's ideological and political infiltration westward...
...Sharpest disagreement among Yak-Acs: whether the U.S. was justified in using the A-bomb on Japan. Most girls thought no; most boys...
...Exchange's new campaign to keep lambs from being shorn got unexpectedly efficient cooperation from the market itself. The day the ads appeared, stock prices fell 5½ points, the sharpest break since the British debacle at Dunkirk in 1940. By midweek the Dow-Jones industrial average had slipped to 192.38, wiping out the gains of two months. Cause of the break: stock buyers who had been betting that settlement of the steel strike would bring inflationary price raises had changed their minds...