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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sparkplug of Youth Films is muscular, ash-blond Rev. Borland P. Dryer, 36, a boy evangelist grown up, who spent his youth traveling with such famous spellbinders as Billy Sunday and Uldine Utley, later studied at several universities. One day Dryer faced the fact that more people were going to movie houses than to churches. "We were missing the boat," he says. "The visual image was here to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Canned, Ready to Serve | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Canadian radar expert Lieut. Commander Harold D. McCormick explained the radar failure as a case of "substandard propagation." This means, he said, that when the air becomes warmer and dryer as altitude increases (an unusual condition), "it is possible for the waves from the radar transmitter to skip over the target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fallible Radar | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Other divisions of TIME Inc. also borrow him in times of crisis - such as last week's SOS from the Paris printer of one of our overseas editions for a plane-sped package of extender (ink dryer). He has even been useful in getting people to work. Recently, one of our researchers injured a kneecap and another, who had just recovered from a broken leg, offered to lend the invalid her idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...first time in her 67 years, Sally Elizabeth Richardson visited a beauty shop. (To a photographer trying to snap her picture under the dryer, she exclaimed: "My goodness! I wouldn't want anyone to see me in pins!") Then, her grey hair neatly curled, Miss Lizzie stopped at the post office for her mail and was swamped by letters of congratulation from ex-pupils all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Miss Lizzie | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...electric clothes dryer. CJ Ceramic stoves in any desired color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Kitchen Front | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

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