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Notice the Boop. To hear the assertion that God exists, declared handsome Tony Quinton, is like visiting a friend and having him ask: "Did you notice our boop when you came through the garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Where Are We? | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...wouldn't talk like that if you knew what it was to have a boop. Of course, it hasn't dealt with the burglars yet, but it knows who they are and is going to punish them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Where Are We? | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...said Quinton, is just about as evident as a boop. Then he went on to draw a prestidigitator's "proof" of God's nonexistence from Christian dogma: "God created the world." "World" in this sense, said Philosopher Quinton, means not "earth" but "everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Where Are We? | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Boops, No Baby Talk. Jo Stafford's style is also typical of popular singing, 1946 model. The days of Helen Kane's boop-boop-a-doop, Helen Morgan's teary-voiced moaning or Bonnie Baker's baby talk are past. The style,now-practiced also by Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee -is to sing straight, and let the band do the fancy work. Her detractors say Jo Stafford sings like a pitch pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Girlish Voice | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...science. It was to Magician Dunninger that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits. One medium's version of Edison's message: "My niece, Betty. Where are you? Boop. Boop. Boop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cash for Spirits | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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