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...Abraham's Grandpa. Rabbi Mann's synagogue has two other means of getting across his message: the Forum and the Sunday school. Sinai's Sunday school (TIME, Mar. 11, 1935) emphasizes the latest educational theories, retains a psychiatrist to look after the 600 boys & girls. Says Mann: "It is not too important to know who Abraham's grandpa was if children can learn to live normal, happy, useful lives...
When Dr. Dollard began his search for facts on fear 18 months ago, the biggest available group of Americans who had felt the impact of modern war was the Abraham Lincoln Brigade-the volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. (The study concerned their military experience, not their political views.) "The typical informant was a rifleman, noncommissioned, poorly trained by American Army standards, wounded. All observers seem to agree that he was a tough fighting...
...told Prosecutor Hassell Biblical stories about Abraham, who took a "handmaiden," and Jacob, who worked seven years for Rachel, was tricked into marrying her sister Leah, then had to work seven more years for Rachel-making two wives. "Do you [think] the Bible is sexually as stimulating as Esquire?" bristled Hassell. "Certainly not," replied...
...South's liveliest, best faculties, including Archibald Henderson (biographer of George Bernard Shaw), Sociologist Howard Washington Odum (Rain bow Round My Shoulder), Pulitzer Prize Playwright Paul Eliot Green (In Abraham's Bosom), Milton Joseph Rosenau (communicable diseases), Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton (biographer of Henry Ford), Rupert Bayless Vance (Human Geography of the South...
Jewish resentment soared. Every Jew in Palestine remembered last month's trial in Jerusalem of Taxi Driver Abraham Rachlin and Labor Leader Leib Sirkin. The charge: illegal possession of 300 stolen rifles and 105,000 rounds of ammunition. The sentence: seven years' imprisonment for Rachlin, ten for Sirkin...