Word: comings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pinky. The most skillful propaganda-entertainment to come out of Hollywood's current preoccupation with the plight of the U.S. Negro; starring Jeanne Crain (TIME...
Church unity is a subject that has dominated the thinking of 20th Century Protestantism. Last week a leading Protestant told U.S. Christians that the time had come to stop thinking about it and do something...
...first night of the adult education series, silver-haired Poet E. E. Cummings gazed out over the audience in the new science hall of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. and announced that he was "terrified." He had expected about 30 people, but 600 had come. "I don't see why so many people would come to a poetry lecture unless they had to," said he. "I wouldn't." Last week, it was the turn of Poet W. H. Auden to be astonished at a poetry audience of hundreds...
...This is a call to action," said Dr. Truman B. Douglass, executive vice president of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Christian Churches, in the Woman's Home Companion. "The penalty for failure is greater than any Christian would like to contemplate. The time may come-it has already come in many communities-when millions of Christians actually will have no churches...
With such genteel stiff-arming of the buyer, white-haired Hiram Parke, 76, who looks more like a bank president than an auctioneer, has pleased most of the sellers who have come to him.* In eleven years he has built Parke-Bernet (rhymes with "in debt") into the largest U.S. auction house, lured buyers from as far away as Europe and South America, and sold more than $50 million worth of paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, etc. At commissions ranging from 10% (plus expenses) up to 20%, he has always shown a tidy profit (last year's take: about...