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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your objective Aug. 15 reporting on the Moral Re-Armaments play entitled The Vanishing Island. This travesty on the real world made its debut in Santa Barbara several months ago, and MRAers' comings and goings stirred up tremendous ill-feeling here. They are a misguided group and certainly an irritating one. I was delighted that you placed your review of this incredible slush under "Organizations" and not "Religion." These people dream of substituting M.R.A. for religion whenever possible, and they woo the Catholic and Anglican clergy shamelessly...
...drunk. The damn-the-torpedoes dean of the school is Oskar Kokoschka, 69, who signs himself "O.K." and is proving very much O.K. in Salzburg this season. Kokoschka's sets for a festival performance of Mozart's Magic Flute were the hit of the show (TIME, Aug. 8), his summer art school in a fortress overlooking the city was going strong, and an exhibition of his last three years' work drew raves from the critics...
...tour of Russia left for home "impressed [by] the enthusiasm and sincerity" of Russian churchgoers and by "the surprising number of young men and women in the churches." Said the Rev. Theodore F. Adams of the First Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., president of the World Baptist Alliance (TIME, Aug. 1): "Of course, they do not have religious freedom the way we know it, but they certainly have full freedom of worship...
...managed by the families of Founder Charles Lewis Tiffany and an early partner, Silversmith Edward C. Moore. Thus, when Manhattan Real Estate Operator Irving Maidman and Bulova Watch Co. talked of taking over Tiffany's and replacing its genteel tradition with the code of the hard sell (TIME, Aug. 8), Tiffany's Fifth Avenue neighbors shuddered with well-bred distress...
...well on grass." Lindheimer had every faith in Swaps, but he knew too well that in a horse race anything can happen. He did not intend to let a $146,425 imitation of the Epsom Derby take the shine off the big race coming up, the Aug. 31 match race between Swaps and Nashua, the best three-year-olds on the track...