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...this is the only spiritual guidance the Primate can offer anxious millions on this supreme question, he had better hold his peace or lay down his office. Clearly the Archbishop has lost faith in mankind." Many churchmen agreed. "Singularly futile, stupid and un-Christian," snapped Dr. John S. Thomson, moderator of the United Church of Canada. "There is no justification for anyone, even the Archbishop of Canterbury, to put himself in the place of God," said Canon L. J. Collins of St. Paul's Cathedral, and added that he would cease to be a Christian if he thought "that...
Although Steinle still has an uphill battle, his least expected asset for November is that it is now the Democrats who are plagued with faction fights and feuds. Last fortnight State Senator Gaylord Nelson, Democratic candidate for Governor against hard-to-beat G.O.P. incumbent Governor Vernon Thomson, launched a crunching head-on attack against Ticket-Mate Bill Proxmire. Reason: Proxmire invited Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to speak at Milwaukee's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on May 17, and even though Johnson could not come, Nelson took after him as the spokesman for Texas oil interests inimical to Wisconsin...
Right from the start, the Pabst junket was as hopped-up as enterprising public relations men could make it. In Milwaukee, before boarding the plane, newsmen walked on a red carpet into the Pabst plant to watch Wisconsin's Governor Vernon Thomson bung the golden 100 millionth barrel of beer. "We had to delay production two months to make sure the golden barrel did not get away from us," cracked a Pabst man. At lunch the party blinked at the deadpan declaration of Pabst President Harris Perlstein: "This golden barrel is the golden symbol of peace...
NANCY GLIDDEN THOMSON, M.D. San Francisco...
...Such noted U.S. composers as Aaron Copland (The Heiress) and Leonard Bernstein (On the Waterfront) have written distinguished film music. Some composers have used films as the inspiration for music that has become part of the concert repertory, e.g., Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky and Lieutenant Kije, Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story. *The others: Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre, Louis Durey...