Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna, Bridegroom Tyrone Power made an important announcement to the press: his bride, Linda Christian (she once had a movie contract with MGM, which dropped her option more than a year ago), will "have enough to do" now that she is married, and so is officially giving up her "career...
...brouhaha over who is a fellow traveler and who isn't, who was coming to dinner and who wasn't, Bishop Oxnam released his letter accepting the award. Wrote he: "I count this a high honor . . . The Churchman has stood courageously and creatively for our Christian faith and likewise for our democratic principles. In such an hour . . . it is good to know that there are really fearless journals that believe in liberty enough to stand resolutely...
...tonight Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, Arthur T. Merrit '29, professor of Music, and Dorothy Adlow, art critic of the Christian Science monitor will deal with the Arts and letters section of the five day symposiums...
Declaring that "the future of the Christian cause depends on the mobilization of laymen," the committee decided on a secretariat to stir up the laity. Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller would travel to Australia in the fall; Dr. Marc Boegner, president of the French Protestant Federation, would bring the gospel to South America; Norway's Bishop Berggrav would go to East Asia...
...Died. Christian ("Bebe") Berard, 46, French artist and designer of costumes and theatrical sets (Beauty and the Beast, The Madwoman of Chaillot), credited with inspiring fashion's 1947 New Look; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...