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...Toronto and Kingston Synod of the Presbyterian Church in Canada need not apologize for its resolution admitting that there is a powerful streak of spiritual power in Communism [TIME, May 28]. If the Russian people were not so deeply religious, Communism could not have succeeded. This war ought to illustrate to the most gullible that our conception of Christianity with its repetition of wars is neither Christian nor lasting and cannot hope to please the Lord who preached brotherhood and love...
Emerging from its recent losing streak, the Harvard Debate Council last night defeated a team from Princeton University. Before some 200 people in Rhode island State University's Quinn Auditorium at Kingston, Rhode Island, Richard N. Gardner '48 and Richard T. Gill '48 defeated the Nassau team...
Tool for the Job. What was significant to U.S. industrialists, worried by the C.I.O.'s streak of socialistic thinking, was labor's wholehearted agreement that a "system of private competitive capitalism must continue to be the foundation of our . . . expanding economy. . . . The inherent right of management to direct . . . shall be preserved. . . . So that enterprise may develop and expand and earn a reasonable profit, management must be free as well from unnecessary governmental interference...
...West Point, too, the Cadets were unbeatable. The all-conquering Army swimmers, who snapped Yale's great 66-meet winning streak last month, sank the Navy, 44-to-31. Ray Thayer, an exponent of power rather than form, swam on the winning relay, took the 50-yd. sprint and cracked the Academy pool record with...
...commonplace social history, and for its unsparing honesty. It is sometimes little more than a catalogue of impressions, saved from tedium and pretentiousness by Karig's humor. Marvin Lang has all the characteristics of Babbitt. He is smug, ambitious, self-righteous, calculating. Unlike Babbitt, he has a mean streak, especially in his relations with women. His life is actually harsher than Babbitt's was. But his enjoyment of his stale jokes is genuine; his faith in his secondhand opinions is profound; his comic-strip adventures with girls and jobs are funny...