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...Shanghai cells, for the most part squatting in one position all day, forbidden to speak a word. By refusing to defend himself against any charge ("I know that I am here only because I am a Catholic priest, sir"), he finally thwarted his jailors' attempts to make him "confess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Schism in China | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...Donald Hume, do hereby confess to the Sunday Pictorial that on the night of October 4, 1949, I murdered Stanley Setty in my flat in Finchley-road, London. I stabbed him to death while we were fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Murder for Profit | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...This kind of international hypocrisy should be abhorrent to Christians, and in its presence the Church dare not keep silent . . . We Americans are in danger of rejecting the heritage which made us what we are. With penitence let us confess that as a people we are becoming less interested in righteousness than in national security and international superiority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Denomination | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...people on all planets must confess that Christ is Lord. This includes any creatures created by God in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Just Pals. But as Mack continued, his statement turned pitifully flabby. He and Whiteside, he said, had "known one another since I was eight years old. We went to school and to college [University of Florida] together. Our wives went to college together ... I must confess that throughout my career I have not been what may be called a moneymaker. There have been many times in my life when I have been in need of financial assistance." And whenever he needed such assistance, why there was good old Thurman Whiteside, ready with a check from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: You Are to Be Pitied | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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