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...there has never been such a run on flowing robes, phylacteries and false beards as there is in the studios just now. Prop men from Paramount are scouring Egypt for frogs to make a likely plague (Exodus 8:31, for non-biting insects to substitute for lice (Exodus 8:16), and they are making the necessary preparations to turn the Nile to blood (Exodus 7:19)-all for The Ten Commandments. In Hollywood Columbia executives are busy scanning six weeks' worth of background shots (using 17,500 Egyptian extras) for Joseph and His Brethren, and laying plans to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scripture on Wide Screen | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...sororities do not alleviate the situation since they are merely rooms in an office building in the town. If a girl wants entertainment, she must go one state west or 100 miles up to Montreal. But this is complicated by the transportation problem. There is no general exodus of students over the weekend at Middlebury because there are no longer trains...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Middlebury College: Myth of Coeducation | 5/21/1954 | See Source »

Last week, five years later almost to the day, 69 of Rumania's emigrant Jews returned to Haifa, reboarded a steamer and started back to Rumania. They were the vanguard of an exodus of 2,000. The number was comparatively small, but the fact of their leaving was disquieting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Broken Spirits | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Every two years there is a mass exodus from Cambridge to an organized week-end of fun and games at New Haven. It is customary at this time for us to give some helpful hints to unsuspecting undergraduates and some inspiring words to all others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cook's Tour | 11/21/1953 | See Source »

...Exodus. In London, Ohio, Marion Greer charged his wife with "acting in a way tending to cause the delinquency" of his children, after she piled ten of the family's eleven children into his car, loaded it with clothing and canned goods, and drove off with a male companion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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