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...Treaty nations trying to maintain self-sufficient armies, navies and air forces, each would eventually take on one main defense job for all (see below). The plan was more than an advance toward efficiency: it was an unprecedented step toward military interdependence among the allies which asserted beyond all solemn assurances that they would hang together. Said one U.S. observer: "If you can get the French to rely on the British navy for the defense of their shores, and the British to rely on French infantry to hold a common defense line on the Continent, then you are really getting...
...fall day in 1946, some 300 Indians of the Oto tribe sat themselves down in a solemn, elm-shaded circle near Ponca City, Okla., and received a delegation of white men. As the ceremonies began, Moses Harragara, an elder of the tribe, handed a copy of a manuscript to the boss white man, Princeton Librarian Julian P. Boyd. It was no ordinary document. President Thomas Jefferson had written it and handed it personally to Oto Chief Standing Buffalo in Washington in 1806. Librarian...
Hananiah Harari is a slick, meticulous commercial artist whose sharp-focus Coca-Cola ads, whisky displays (Old Sunny Brook) and magazine covers (FORTUNE) look even more real than the photographs he often paints from. He is also a solemn abstractionist. Last week Harari's "serious" paintings were on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery. They looked like nothing so much as houses built of cards for a game unknown to Hoyle...
Nothing, by Henry Green. An amusing inquiry into the paradox of solemn youth and flaming age in postwar Britain, by the author of Loving (TIME, March...
...could be laid to the showmanship which marked the first news. Patients who had been crippled were photographed dancing a jig after a few shots of either hormone. But the research team headed by Drs. Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall which touched off the foofaraw ends a solemn, 120-page report in the Archives of Internal Medicine with these sobering words...