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...other hand, the words of General Bradley deserve the greatest recognition. "As Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, I owe a solemn duty to 17,000.000 veterans who fought this country's wars. And yet, I am positive that the huge majority of these veterans will support me in my conviction that I owe an even more compelling duty to all Americans and to the nation in which they live." . . . This attitude might well serve as a basis of thought for leaders all over the world...
...with headquarters at San Francisco's Presidio. There last week death came to Joseph Warren Stilwell, 63, after an operation on the liver. A 17-gun salute was fired, the flag was hauled down to the accompaniment of ruffles and flourishes. Uncle Joe would have snorted at such solemn ceremonial. But just 24 hours before he died, he had got his dying wish: on orders of War Secretary Patterson, he received the Combat Infantryman Badge...
...American Century and by its attempts to smear, with seeming objectivity, all liberal groups as Red, Commie or Pinko, a set of terms that was once the exclusive property of the Hearst press. Good Democrats wince when, as a "newsmagazine," it refers to Republican election victories in terms of solemn rejoicing for the country, and scoffs at or discounts Democratic triumphs. Luce thinking, like all party lines, is ofttimes indigestible...
...imagination, real events-or as good as real events-which no one before him has really been able to fathom. Thomas Mann, in his wisdom, makes no such claim for his great and subtle Biblical Joseph and His Brothers. But in King Jesus Robert Graves, bright and solemn as a Quiz Kid, again implies that he has at last discovered the "valid explanation"-this time of the New Testament story...
...Grand Charlie" was tall and solemn. What was he like inside? Author Borden could only guess...