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...gathers from a reading of Freud, "very largely governs the lives of the people ... in other parts of the country." Even in Boston, to Apley's dismay, its lure involves his son and daughter, as once long ago Apley himself had been passionately involved with a South Boston colleen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1944 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...came 20 monks (10 priests, 3 clerics or students, 7 lay brothers), all members of the Roman Catholic Church's strictest monastic order (Trappists do not converse with one another). For $45,000 they bought 1,464-acre Honey Creek Plantation, which formerly belonged to old-time filmstar Colleen Moore. Said Atlanta's Catholic attorney Hughes Spalding to liquor dealer Mercer Harbin, who sold the farm : "Now, Mercer, I don't want you trying to cheat them." Replied Harbin: "No, sir, that old Abbot looks like he could pray me into Hell in five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Georgia's Trappists | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...those fleecing moments when he is in repose have the surprise value of a Second Coming. Ian Hunter and Freddie Bartholomew, the Englishmen most painfully implicated, are more polite about it than there is any reason to expect of them. Tim's sister, Juanita Quigley, a fat little colleen with remarkable eyes, will bear watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Pictures | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...COLLEEN MCFARREN Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...COLLEEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1942 | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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