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...though history was being overdramatic. The skies were fulgurant. Detonations of thunder echoed hollowly and mysteriously through the corridors of St. Peter's. The question of infallibility was put to the Council and 535 voted placet; 2 voted non placet. The dissenters were the Bishop of Little Rock, Ark., and the Bishop of Ajaccio, Corsica (where the first Napoleon was born). The question was put again and 537 voted placet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 21st Council | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Brilliant example of the air industry's swift enterprise. Young R. B. Snowden Jr. of Memphis, Tenn., reorganized Command-Aire, Inc., only last October to make biplanes at Little Rock, Ark., to sell at $3,250. Sales directed at business and college men have made Command-Aire a leader in the industry. *At $2,400 without motor. TIME, Dec. 3, erroneously printed the price as $24,000. †The Gypsy is the third British motor to be made in this country The others: Cirrus, similar to the Gypsy; the Bristol Jupiter air-cooled radial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chicago Show | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Noah's Ark. Many and many a thousand that the Warners have amassed by beating their rivals to the screen with talking pictures (Vitaphone) they poured into this elephantine show. Perhaps they felt its worthlessness of story interest and sought to stun the public with its size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Openings | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...They showed his loved one all but shot as a German spy, her salvation being his presence in the firing squad. Suddenly German shells dropped and the whole crew were tumbled into a nearby cellar. A convenient priest began to read from the Bible the story of Noah's Ark. By a series of titles it was prodded home that war is like the Flood. Then the picture suddenly dipped back several centuries and went into the story of that wide inundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Openings | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Singing Fool (still making records) ; Noah's Ark ($28,000. Chinese, Los Angeles); Our Dancing Daughters ($18,000. Fifth Avenue, Seattle) ; Me, Gangster ($17,000, Loew's State, St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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