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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam: (mutters) "I couldn't stay there and watch you suffer. It was worse for me than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Light Of The World | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...couple have about exhausted the possibilities of broadcastable domestic experience. Last week Betty & Bob laid plans to move to the country, after listening to a religious radio program called "Light of the World." This, curiously, was General Mills' new Monday-to-Friday quarter-hour*-Bible stories, beginning with Adam & Eve. Mindful of the holy row churchmen kicked up the last time Adam & Eve were on the air-as performed by Don Ameche and Mae West-the sponsors hired not only Protestant Moffatt as supervisor, but also a Jesuit and a rabbi-the Rev. John La Farge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Light Of The World | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Moffatt, who believes that "the more the Bible is human, the more its divinity is evidenced," let General Mills' Adam & Eve sound as human as Betty & Bob. Living, after the Fall, in a "nice, comfortable hut" which Adam has built, Eve recalls the birth of Cain: "The pain lasted all that night . . . and I lay there in the cave . . . listening to the wind. . . . Finally ... I cried out to you. ... I said I couldn't bear the pain any longer . . . and . . . you ran outside. I thought I'd never see you again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Light Of The World | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...generation Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has loved living in London and shocking the British. Last summer he shocked them again with Adam, a seven-foot ape man, chiseled out of a three-ton chunk of pink alabaster while Jacob Epstein listened to Ludwig van Beethoven for inspiration. Critics called it "a biologist's nightmare," but an Australian gold miner bought it for $35,000. As a side show at Blackpool on the Irish Sea, Adam grossed $250,000 from a million vacation gawkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Adam's Airplanes | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...pressed Britain can use statues as well as men. Detailed for active service in the U. S., Adam last week was freighter-bound for Manhattan. The British Government will use the proceeds of his coast-to-coast tour to buy U. S. airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Adam's Airplanes | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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