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...ideals") were elegantly drawn and painted to shine like new snow, but the picture fell apart at the top and degenerated into cartooning at the bottom. Leda's just-hatched twins were cast as symbols of race-hatred. The prize they fought for, a cracked Easter egg in the background, was filled with gold coins...
...News. Except at Easter and Christmas, most newspapers have generally kept religion stories on the "church news" page, a dull collection of building-fund reports, warmed-over sermons and church-supper notes surrounded by profitable church ads. These pages sound the same week after week, bore editors as much as they do most readers. But last Easter, editors who ran Oursler's Greatest Story got a surprise; readers were so interested that circulation jumped 5,000 to 10,000 on several papers. The Chicago Daily News started the Greatest Story on Page One, kept it there under news headlines...
Henry Browne Wallace got his start in the chicken business when he was a twelve-year-old Des Moines schoolboy On Easter Sunday 1926, his mother gave him a dozen baby chicks from the dime store and he began raising them in his backyard, with some advice from his father, Henry Agard Wallace. No politician then father Henry was spending his time developing his hybrid corn,* forming the Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. to sell the seed, and editing Wallaces' Farmer. When the corn became a success (over 99% of Iowa corn springs from some brand of hybrid ternel...
...September 29--There is a saying around Ebbets Field that if it isn't raining hard enough to make the ink run on Dodger tickets, then the game cannot he called. So, bolstered by many years of mudding for dear old Rickey, the Brooklyn entry wandered out into nor easter weather today and waded to a double victory over the complacent Braves...
April 13 was the Wednesday preceding Easter. The authorities of the Church were unable to answer this charge of heresy until the following Monday, as Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday intervened. Before the Archbishop could reply Father Feeney publicly supported the fired...