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...proved to be a jolt-so much so that some 75 backers promptly backed away. It was a sort of Hellzapoppin with brains, the story of Everyman (Mr. Antrobus) and the whole human race. Its action spread over 5,000 years, took in the Flood, the Ice Age and Armageddon. "Our Town" says Wilder, "is the life of the family seen from a telescope five miles away. The Skin of Our Teeth is the destiny of the whole human group seen from a telescope 1,000 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Obliging Man | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...World War III, its "Preview of the War We Do Not Want." From the first shot "at exactly 1:58 p.m. G.M.T., Saturday, May 10, 1952 ... a terrible Kremlin miscalculation" (the Reds tried to assassinate Tito and occupy Yugoslavia), until the occupation of Russia ("The outcome was inevitable"), the Armageddon took a full, fat, 130-page Collier's issue. It also took a shining constellation of star writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Collier's Reports a War | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...best job you have done in a long time, and certainly is a refreshing change from the Armageddon propaganda you have been spewing since June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...alive when Christ enters His Kingdom will see the end of this world, it is clear to Witnesses that it is likely to happen any day now. Obviously then, the most important thing that a man can do is scramble onto the right side of the fence before Armageddon-the last and decisive battle between Satan and Jehovah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Waiting for Armageddon | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...Just as the Scriptures prophesied, we are reaching the point where there is a breaking up of earthly nations into warring kingdoms. Plowshares are being made into swords, and soon we shall have Armageddon . . . The time is approaching for Christ to return to this earth and set up His Kingdom." So spoke Elder William Henry Branson, at the quadrennial meeting of the World Conference of Seventh Day Adventists which elected him president last week in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Signs of the Times | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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