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...months ago Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas of Cincinnati, one of the ablest Roman Catholic prelates in the Midwest, took the lead in forming the Legion of Decency to boycott pictures considered immoral or obscene (TIME, June ii). One day last week the benign, grey-haired Archbishop sat in white cassock and red skullcap on the porch of his Cincinnati suburban residence. With him sat the bishops of Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Los Angeles, members of his committee running the Legion. They had said mass, conferred at length. So effective had the boycott become that two potent cinemamen, Joseph I. Breen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Legion of Decency (Cont'd) | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

Sweltering in cassock, alb, chasuble and stole, Father Guerrera looked down at his flock. His eye fell on a cool expanse of bare shoulder and open bosom. "Elida." he roared, "go home and take off that dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Hot Day | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

Before the rage of Primo de Rivera and King Alfonso, he fled to France in a monk's cassock. Later he made peace with the crown and nearly won himself a title through elaborate gifts to charity. Juan March bulwarked his tobacco fortune with banks, newspapers, a steamship line, and after the revolution won himself immunity from arrest by a seat in the Cortes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: March to Gibraltar | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army fatigue cap. The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers. He carried his sapper's axe. The typical Napoleonic uniform included high stiff headgear, tight white trousers or very baggy ones, crossed bandoliers. Charles Sandré made one of each to the number of 900, including every rank in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fake Army | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...Author. Few apprenticeships to the Muse have been served in less promising quarters than Walter John de la Mare's. When he had twitched off the cassock of St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School he went to a high stool in the London office of Anglo-American Oil Co., spent 18 years there ploughing barren columns of figures. To overcome his environment and catch his Muse's eye, young de la Mare let his black hair grow long and wavy, attired himself according to his idea of the Latin Quarter. And while he kept others' books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gossamer & Ghosts | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

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