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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night Unto Night (Warner), according to Psalms 19,* sheweth knowledge of the Lord. In Hollywood hands, the biblical text becomes a pretext for showing off an extraordinary amount of morbid, flowery talk about the nature of life, death and love...
Died. Sir James Purves-Stewart, 79, neurologist, author of the standard text Diagnosis of Nervous Diseases (nine editions, four translations); in London. An advocate of euthanasia, Sir James hinted in his autobiography (Sands of Time, 1939) that at the request of a mortally ill friend he had hastened her death...
...full text of President Conant's statement to the Foundation for Advanced Study and Research...
Every Monday a bulk order of 36 copies of TIME'S Atlantic edition arrives in Teheran via Air France. The next morning they are distributed to students taking the world history course at the American Community School in Iran's capital. There TIME is used as a text for the study of current events...
...family in an English country house around the turn of the century and sets them to betraying to one another their inexhaustible human capacity for loyalty and treachery, frankness and cant, courage and cowardice. Its theme, painfully learned by all concerned, is the old, grim and simple text: "Judge not, that ye be not judged...