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Ten years ago the earthly heaven of that earthly little black "god," the Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine, was enriched by two new angels, Verinda and Thomas Brown. As working Negroes go-they were cook & butler in Forest Hills, L. I.-the Browns were well heeled. Soon after they visited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heavenly Treasure | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

From Homer on, hardly a serious poet has been without a guardian conscience which he called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Muse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

The Yardlings open their competitive season against Lynn Y.M.C.A. December 16. Mentor Peterson as usual has preserved an angelic silence about anything concerning prospects of his charges, but it is understood that, as in the case of the Varsity, most of his material will have to be built up, there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWIMMERS ENTER POOL AT SEASON'S APPROACH | 11/22/1938 | See Source »

May he be successful in insuring peace in that country!" Ace London Cartoonist David Low went to town on the angelic chord (see cut).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Pax Runciman | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

With the exhaustively accurate settings, the high-horsed performances of the grownups (particularly that of May Robson as Aunt Polly), Author Mark Twain might have been well pleased. But more than once he would have harrumphed at the self-consciousness of the child actors. Hollywood usually looks to professional youngsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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