Word: armageddon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign countries, Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered 194,000 strong. For eight days they packed both ballparks in a "giant Bible school." Through steamy rain they went on singing hymns, praying, hearing speeches and reports about the fast-growing sect (total members: 719,000) that believes Armageddon is just around the corner...
Speaking first was novelist Andrew Lytle, who discussed the environment which the South has inherited. Lytle's talk was followed by Elliott's reading of three of his unpublished poems, including "Armageddon...
TIME, June 30, says that Buck Rogers was "created" 29 years ago by Robert C. Dille's father. In 1928 a story entitled Armageddon -2419 was published. The author of it was Phillip Francis Nowlan. Shortly thereafter, John Dille contacted Mr. Nowlan and asked him if he would be willing to have stories syndicated in strip form. Mr. Nowlan agreed, and changed the name of his principal character from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers. From then until his death in 1940, Mr. Nowlan was credited with being the creator and author of Buck Rogers, 25th Century. It was drawn...
...referred our young aberrations of mind and manners to an order of courtesy above us all ... He has kept before us the example of a classically educated intelligence . . . He is one of the first poets, in any language." Ransom has written poetry, one critic remarked admiringly, about "everything from Armageddon to a dead hen"; his language is quiet but barbed. Of a dead lady he wrote...
Stewart also contributes the only creative work of the issue, a sort of opium illusion called "A Mango For Emelina." Magnolia-mashed Colonel Ashcroft ("a memento of a dead nation's long ago Armageddon") stalks to a garden rendezvous with his boyhood love, Emelina. As he bends to kiss...