WEEK BY WEEK So Few SO FAR there has been something unreal about the war in Korea. It is our war, of course, and the casualty lists are there in the papers every day to prove it. But...
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THE COMMONWEAL of the United Nations' action in Korea, and finally—and perhaps most unfortunate of all— that he drove a wedge between the British and the Americans in Asia, destroying, for the...
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FROM ROME The Holy Year 1 DON'T know why but I had thought that the Eternal City remained much as it was when Chateaubriand described it a'century ago: "There are in this city more tombs than...
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THE LABOR MOVEMENT Morality and the Corporations THE other night I did a foolish thing. Foolish things, and the doing of them, are not so few and widely separated in my own life that this one...
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The Screen PETTY FOUR IT SEEMS a shame that there's such a great waste of material in "The Petty Girl." As a matter of fact there's quite a waste of talent in all four of this week's releases;...
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The Stage THE LIVE WIRE GARSON KANIN'S new comedy does not seem to be aiming at anything more than a light commercial success. In view of this, it is odd that the author has omitted most of the...
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Of Note A Catholic Daily A COMMUNICATION from Robert Hoyt tells something of the progress being made by the Catholic group in Kansas City, Missouri (702 East Twelfth Street) which plans to...
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Machines and Men By ANTHONY STANDEN IN THE 1920's, and from then on, Sir Arthur Eddington and other writers on science made us all familiar with entropy. Entropy is mixed-up-ness, or...
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Book; Verdict of Three Decades. Edited by Julien Steinberg. Duell. $5. WE ARE learning today that the monster horror of the Soviet Union is a cancerous growth. It cannot be talked away; it...
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