Word: alphaeus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bible sales as the result of a Bible-quoting grandmother's successful appearance on TV's quiz show, The $64,000 Question (TIME, July 25)."If a lipstick manufacturer thinks it worth $32,000 to be told the names of eight of the twelve disciples, or that Alphaeus was the father of James the Less-well, that's all right for a quiz program," said the Century. "But it does not represent the sort of 'knowing the Bible' which has any deep religious significance. All it means is that people like to play games...
...another tough week for the trustees of the Civil Rights Congress bail fund. In Washington, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed refused bail to Trustees Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Dashiell (The Thin Man) Hammett and W. Alphaeus Hunton while they appealed from convictions for contempt of court. Justice Reed went a step further. He ruled that the U.S. has a perfect right to slap them behind bars for refusing to tell where they got about $450,000 which has been posted as bail for Commies in the past three years...