Word: springing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that their victory will open the way toward the new world we are endeavoring to build-that hate-free, greed-free, fear-free world for which every one of us longs." Secret will be kept the date on which the new Governor General will sail to Canada this spring...
Last week on the 7,500-odd square feet of floor space at Manhattan's red-brick Whitney Museum were scattered an estimated 25 tons of assorted sculpture. The occasion: a big spring showing by members and nonmembers of the National Sculpture Society. Of some 185 pieces shown, many would have looked well on a moonlit night behind a fishpond, half covered with ivy. None bore the Whitney Museum's excellent lighting with enough distinction to turn a critic's head. The medal-winner: a reddish marble mother toting a limp child whose build resembled that...
...winter and spring Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the Christian Century has fought like General Grant on one line: against President Roosevelt's appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his special ambassador to the Pope. Last week Dr. Morrison had fresh ammunition-a letter from Mr. Roosevelt to Dr. George. A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches, Dr. Buttrick, quoting a report from Rome, had tried to pin the President down as to whether Mr. Taylor had a permanent status, warned him of "a growing [Protestant] disillusionment which augurs ill for interfaith comity." Last week the Federal...
...Haverford regularly sent teams to compete on England's playing fields. By English standards, Haverford's cricket has never been of a very high order. When the British cruiser Exeter (conqueror of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee-TIME, Dec. 25) put into Philadelphia last spring, its tarry cricketers bowled over the Haverfords with ease. The Haverfords consoled themselves by trimming a motley team from Princeton...
Over the protests of undergraduates and Board of Managers,"Uncle Billy" Comfort, 65, announced last spring that he would resign his office at the close of the current college year. Last week his successor was named...