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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To illustrate the stories, Harte picked an intense, white-haired little artist named Guy Rowe. When 55-year-old Artist Rowe accepted the commission, he knew next to nothing about the inside of the Bible. For months before picking up a brush, he read and reread the Old Testament, steeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Old Testament Faces | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Color-TV hearings before the Federal Communications Commission in Washington got down to figures last week. Radio Corporation of America's Elmer W. Engstrom. vice president in charge of research, cautiously estimated that color converters for present black & white receivers would cost from $125 to $175.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Color | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

-The Pope's position was more strict than the stand of the Church of England (which also opposes the use of donors). A commission appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury held st year: "If, for the insemination of a wife with ner husband's semen, there is no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors' Dilemma | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

President Conant, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and 15 other members of the Educational Policies Commission have opposed state laws testing the loyalty of teachers in a statement issued Saturday night.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Eisenhower Oppose Loyalty Laws for Teachers | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

The Commission said: "State laws requiring special oaths for teachers, or laying down detailed prescriptions for the school curriculum, or establishing uniform tests and criteria of loyalty impair the vigor of local school autonomy and thus do harm to an important safeguard of freedom in education."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Eisenhower Oppose Loyalty Laws for Teachers | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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