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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen years ago a handsome young Episcopal rector of Christ Church, Macon, Ga., heard that his name was up for nomination to the Bishopric of Florida. He withdrew his name, protesting that he was "much too young." Thirteen years later, Oliver James Hart III, now rector of St. John's ("The Church of the Presidents") in Washington, D. C., again declined, this time to become Bishop Coadjutor of Tennessee. In the next 16 months he turned down two more bishoprics: the Dioceses of Central New York and Delaware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dr. Hart Accepts | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...divides the human career into three days or ages: that of the animal, free in his instincts; that of the human world, tortured between fear and craving; that of resurrection. Indirectly suggesting that the end of the second age, of the human world, is at hand, he recalls that Christ compared such catastrophes to the first leaves of a fig tree, by which men know that summer is near. In his closing chapter Winston Churchill begins to sketch a program for The Third Day. His resurrection is not supernatural but earthly. The reader who finds in this chapter cold comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prophet | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...forum opened when an unreconstructed Springfield Republican, William Bell Chilton, told a hostile audience: "I wouldn't vote for anybody for a third term, with the exception of Jesus Christ." Mrs. G. A. Crotts, a Nashville housewife, answered sharply: "I want Roosevelt for a third term, a fourth term or as many terms as he wants." Then she ran the gamut of Presidential possibilities, called Dewey "a little two-for-a-nickel lawyer," Taft "the perpetual whiner of the Senate and No. 1 bore," Willkie "head of the Southern Power Corporation when the companies robbed the few people able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Letter Writers' Holiday | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

First he bought a piece of seamless brass tubing, set to work with a hammer, small chisels and punches. At the bottom of the tube he began sculpturing the Three Wise Men. Eight years later he had covered the pipe with 14 spiraling scenes depicting the life of Christ. With trimmings the pipe became a lamp. Figuring his time at 50? an hour, Machinist Fair figures his lamp is worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spirit Lamp | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...miss a bet, Christ saw a business opportunity: California, No. 1 U. S. gold producer (25%), is salted with not-quite-commercial flecks and traces of gold. Why not pan the gravel for it before whisking the gravel to Shasta? As the first gravel moved over the conveyor last week a $30,291 gold-reduction plant (built by Columbia Construction Co.) was nearing completion. The deal: Christ to split the profits, if any, with Columbia after interest, plant and production costs. Oldtimers, recalling that Sacramento is part of the motherlode country, figured that the works might gross some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Gold in Shasta? | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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