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Parents Are No Use. National holidays and heroes are a constant source of inspiration-"Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands." But so is resentment of a sibling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Authors in the Nursery | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Rough. In Wayne. N.J.. despite his explanation that he was sober and merely lost. Jesse Abraham was jugged on a 30-day drunken driving rap after police found him motoring on the Passaic County golf course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...brings the authentic views of the Bible's landscape to the man living on Main Street.'' Dr. W. A. Criswell of Dal las' First Baptist Church: "We are not the same after we have lived through the experience of following Moses through this picture." Rabbi Abraham J. Feldman: "Stirring film. I was moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mount Sinai to Main Street | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Genesis describes Sarah, the wife of Abraham, as "very fair," then plunges on in its narrative. With this tempting morsel, readers have been left for centuries to wonder at the beauty that turned the head of the Pharaoh of Egypt. Last week, with scholarly remoteness from war, Jerusalem's Dr. Yigael Vadin published his latest Dead Sea Scroll translation-part of a document earlier identified as an apocryphal Book of Genesis (TIME, Feb. 20). The scroll did justice to Sarah's beauty with an ecstatic, head-to-toe description of her charms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Beauty of Sarah | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...wind that was evil. And it smote him and all his house and he could not come near her nor did he know her." After two years of this, according to the scroll, not even Sarah's marvelous beauty could sustain the Pharaoh. He restored her to Abraham and sent them both out of Egypt "exceedingly rich in cattle and also in silver and gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Beauty of Sarah | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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