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...Chapter 12, in which Abraham's wife Sarah is taken by the Pharaoh in Egypt, the scroll adds a detailed account of Sarah's beauty, describing her feet, legs, face and hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A New Genesis | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...Chapter 13, where God instructs Abraham to walk "through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof,'' the scroll adds a first-person account by Abraham of his journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A New Genesis | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...scroll reports, in Chapter 15, a colloquial discussion between Abraham and his wife after God promised them a son. Genesis makes no mention of such a conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A New Genesis | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...small Briton, two-year-old Abraham McKillop of Dumbartonshire, had a miraculous escape when he was found covered with snow after 16 hours in a frozen ditch, and thawed out unharmed. But not everybody was so fortunate. All in all, the cold weather claimed at least 140 lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Coldest in Years | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...Truman tax scandals, a star performer was chunky, sleek Abraham Teitelbaum, a Chicago lawyer whose clients included the late Al Capone. To a House subcommittee. Teitelbaum shrilled out a fantastic story of how two men had tried to shake him down for $500,000. The "or else": he'd get into "bad tax trouble" if he didn't pay. Last week in Chicago, a federal court jury found him guilty of evading $135,060 in income taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Capone's Lawyer | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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