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...story of Rev. Emmett McLoughlin [TIME, Dec. 13] will shock many more than the residents of Phoenix . . . Fortunately, however, such apostasies as Father McLoughlin's are rare, and we still have our Ronald Knoxes and Fulton Sheens to compensate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Probably nothing would have given greater shock to well-intentioned Donor Chantrey. He had left the bulk (?105,000) of his estate for "the purchase of works of fine art of the highest merit . . . executed within the shores of Great Britain." Chantrey's will specified that the president and council of the Royal Academy should be the judges of what to buy with the money. In 1897, the Academicians had picked the Tate as just the place for the collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Basement | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Starring roles were left to the visitors from Ithaca. Walt Ashbaugh led the cast he scored 16 points--but talent scouts highly praised the performances of Hillary Chollet and John Rose who helped to shock most of the audience in the final twenty minutes of the play...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Quintet Blows Halftime Lead, Bows to Cornell | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...Walker, chairman of the Yale Daily News, said campus reaction to the disaster was "one of extreme shock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Crash Blame Not Set; Harvard Flight Is Delayed | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

Under the most severe misapprehension was an unidentified sightseeing freshman who tried to leave the Farnsworth Room through a full-length pane of glass. The glass, apparently designed with this in mind, withstood the shock, but the freshman suffered assorted head bruises and a bloody nose...

Author: By Jack R. W. spratte, | Title: 7200 Swarm Into Lamont On First Day | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

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