Parade IT WAS General Eisenhower's return that was our Fourth of July this year. The real celebration. The way you would want the country to be when it celebrates. Remembering what it costs to be...
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Glimpse at TVA The Tennessee Valley Authority has completed its construction stage and is ready Edward Skillin, Jr. N A pioneer country such as ours communities I for the most part have "just...
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July 6, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 281 Momentum In the Flag Loft at the Navy Yard I watched them sewing stars. They gave me a handful; As an officer charmingly said "A momentum for you." Stars that...
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The New Realism An educator speaks and does not mumble Robert M. Hutchins What follows is the text of the Convocation Address made by President Hutchins to 524 students graduating this year from...
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284- T H E COMMONWEAL July 6, 1945 The Great "Preamble" Did Bellarmine influence Jefferson? A look at the record. John F. Whealon E ACH year, especially round the Fourth of July, our Catholic...
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July 6, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 285 Communications GERMANY Chicago, Ill. TO the Editors: The exact amount of "blood, sweat and tears" shed by the people of Germany during the Nazi occupation of that...
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286 THE COMMONWEAL July 6, 1945 The Screen Fascinating Rhythms S o GREAT is my enthusiasm for George Gershwin's music that my huzzahs for his film biography are likely to hit the skies. For,...
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July 6, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 287 American Paintings * ANNE FREMANTLE THIS selection of "one hundred and sixteen repre- sentative artists, some of them foreign-born, but American inspired, American...
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July 6, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 289 the threshold of a tremendous period of artistic aliveness. "Tempestuous weather is ever the best seed-time." The recollection in tranquillity, and, it may well be,...
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290 THE COMMONWEAL July 6, 1945 More Books of the Week A. Woollcott: His Life and His World. Samuel Hopkins Adams. Reynal. $3.50. I CriN PREPARING this biography of the late Town I er for Cream...
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