Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night-shrouded field north of Los Angeles a cross burned red. The wartime shortage of sheets and bigotry was lifting. The postwar Ku Klux Klan, already on the march in the South (TIME, May 20) was on the loose again in southern California...
...Soon a cross burned in front of a Jewish fraternity house on the University of Southern California campus; another illumined the house of a Los Angeles Negro. In Hollywood's cream-stucco Temple Israel, Rabbi Max Nussbaum, a Nazi refugee, gazed with dismay at the holy ark, ravaged by unknown vandals, and the swastikas and hate messages smeared on the walls of his temple...
...some private questions of faith. An appendicitis attack decided him. He summoned a Roman Catholic priest, told him: "If I'm going to die, I'd rather die in the Catholic Church than out of it." After World War I service as a captain (with the Red Cross), he headed for Rome and the priesthood. At 63, Father Diman entered a Benedictine abbey in Scotland, where he cleaned corridors, dug ditches and performed penances with novices...
...clubhouse near Frankfurt last week, 179 works of art were on display in a much-ballyhooed Red Cross "Overseas Artists Competition." Red Cross officials took one look at the first prizewinner (picked by civilian and Army judges), and hastily called off the show's scheduled tour of Red Cross clubs in Germany...
Negro Staff Sergeant Gilbert Cartiero's winning picture (titled 0600 Hours) showed a pfc. putting on his pants. In bed in the background sprawled a tired naked German maiden. According to one red-faced bigwig, Sergeant Cartiero's picture might "reflect badly on Red Cross activities...