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This Sunday U. S. Protestants will start a coast-to-coast drive for Europe's orphaned missions. Some 3,700 European missionaries and over 5,300,000 native Christians are concerned, for now they are cut off from almost all the $5,000,000 they normally receive from the Continent, from 20% to 50% of the $10,500,000 they normally get from England. U. S. leaders hope to raise at least $1,500,000 towards this deficit, over and above the $17,000,000 U. S. Protestants annually give to foreign missions. With this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Orphaned Missions | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...outshone by Griffin, Shinola shoe polish also took to the air last Saturday (10 to 10:30 a.m. E.S.T., NBC-Red) with Play Actor Burgess Meredith (a radio serial alumnus) in a weekly series called Lincoln Highway. Last week's pedestrian episode along the famed 3,400-mile, coast-to-coast road was a low-budget It Happened One Night, whose boy-girl hitchhikers fall in love in a barn near Valparaiso (Ind.), instead of in a tourist cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Shows | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...seasons, Argentine art also sprouted some 7,000 miles north, in the uncertain March weather of Washington, D. C. Its greenhouse: the Barr Building, headquarters of the American Federation of Arts. To be displayed in Manhattan next month, it will bloom for a year (possibly two) on a coast-to-coast tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Good Neighbors on Tour | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Gracie raised Cain on the air, popping up on countless programs in search of her supposedly missing brother. The search went on for months, got to be a coast-to-coast gag. It also boosted Burns & Allen's radio popularity tremendously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...pressed Britain can use statues as well as men. Detailed for active service in the U. S., Adam last week was freighter-bound for Manhattan. The British Government will use the proceeds of his coast-to-coast tour to buy U. S. airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Adam's Airplanes | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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