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Devout Christians had been sipping sacramental wine for centuries when Dr. Thomas Bramwell Welch stepped in as Communion steward of the Vineland (N.J.) Methodist Church in 1869. A stern prohibitionist, Dentist Welch determined forthwith to banish Bacchus from the altar. After reading up on Pasteur and experimenting with figs, raisins and blackberries, Dr. Welch gladdened the hearts of fellow communicants on Sunday by serving sterilized, unfermented grape juice. It tasted almost like wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Almost Like Wine | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...though "the struggle for perfection . . .tends to a balanced character, to genuine psychological unity," there is no need to deny that many saints were neurotic. In Bishop Marling's view, "Many a saint has borne a neurosis to a holy death, and enjoys the honors of the altar precisely because, though handicapped by ignorance of its nature and source, he struggled valiantly against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saintly Neurotics | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...suffered through Helen's daily tribulations for the past twelve years. Just now Actress Stevens is pregnant. Helen would never get herself in such an unromantic predicament. She has been engaged for 23 years to honest Gil Whitney (David Gothard), but fate keeps her from the altar. In this, fate has been aided by a series of villains of whom Kurt Bonine is merely the latest. Almost all of them are millionaires, and the effect Helen has on them is generally deadly. She drove Brett Chapman, millionaire ' rancher, to exile in South America. Dwight Swanson, oilman, piloted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ageless Heroine | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...Camilla Maximilian Cianfarra. 49, topflight New York Times correspondent (Rome, 1935-41 and 1946-51; Mexico City, 1942-46; Madrid since 1951). who in 1949 scored a world newsbeat on the Vatican archaeologists' claim to have found St. Peter's tomb beneath the cathedral's high altar in Rome; in the collision-sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, off Nantucket (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Most everybody proclaims taciturn Glenn a local hero except his wife (Jeanne Crain), who mutters darkly of Glenn's troubled past (seems his father was shot by a fast gun) and the evils of gunslinging. Next day Glenn offers up his weapon on the church altar, explaining that he must skip town because "trouble collects around a fast gun." Too late. Enter bellicose Brod, hankering to drill Glenn. As the congregation sings Holy, Holy, Holy, Glenn dutifully straps on his holster for the showdown. As Miss Crain mumbles after the fireworks, "I guess that takes care of everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 30, 1956 | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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