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...recollection of one of the prophecies of the 16th Century mystic Nostradamus, forecasting a day of doom when "the horses of the Cossacks will drink from the holy water fonts of St. Peter's." To set the record straight, he explained that he has mild anarchist and atheist tendencies, but is strongly antiCommunist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Church Burner | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...picture tumbles into almost every pitfall that Stars in My Crown tastefully avoided. It miscasts its parson (juvenile William Lundigan) and his loyal wife (sexy Susan Hayward), sugarcoats the characterization of its village atheist (ably played by Alexander Knox), plugs away so tritely and self-consciously at its tear-jerking and spiritual uplift that it appears insincere. Though shot in Technicolor in the red hills of Georgia, the movie generally seems truer to Hollywood, especially when it gives Actress Hayward such lines as: "I had begun to commit the gravest sin a woman can commit against her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...Atheist, Irish. In the tiny (pop. 110) village where Shaw had spent the last 44 years of his life, however, the parting amenities were those due an old man and a kindly neighbor. With the subject of their prayers gone beyond protest, a few Ayot neighbors, family servants and the daughter of a local publican gathered in Shaw's parlor for a brief service read by the local Anglican pastor, the Reverend R. J. Davies. "Mr. Shaw was not really an atheist," Pastor Davies said later, "I would call him rather an Irishman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: I'm Done | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...succumbed in his cottage in Ayot St. Lawrence, England, after a day-long coma and a "commendatory prayer for a sick person at the point of departure," read by a Church of England rector for the one-time professed atheist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: George Bernard Shaw, 94, Dies at Home in England | 11/2/1950 | See Source »

Religion, according to old (84) Atheist William McCarthy, is a racket. When McCarthy, angel and sparkplug of a group called United Secularists of America, learned that his own state of New Jersey had a law on the books requiring public schools to read pupils five verses of the Old Testament each day, he whistled up his secularist cohorts to the attack. A suit against the state was duly filed by Mrs. Anna Klein, as mother of a student, and Donald Doremus, as a taxpayer, on the ground that the law was unconstitutional (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bible in School | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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