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...flock caught the vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Egypt Land | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...winter job: watching whooping cranes. At Aransas Wildlife Refuge, Texas, he would study their daily lives, their feeding habits, what made them happy or unhappy. He wanted to know everything about them, for the whoopers are on the edge of extinction. Fewer than 100 remain, and the flock is shrinking fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No More Minuets | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...electrician; his mother, an early ragtime pianist, played in a local movie. (Says Hoagy: "She's 70 now, but she can still swing the bass handle.") At 20, Hoagy went to Indiana U., then a hotbed of hot music, and promptly began flying about with a flock of undergraduate musicians known as the "Bent Eagles." Their diversions: "Sensuously . . . stroking lemon meringue pie," "muggling" (smoking marijuana) and writing such deathless lines as: "One by one a cow goes by." Their byword: "There are other things in the world besides hot music. I forget what they are, at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restrained Off-Blue | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

There was no word from the court as to why it had no opinions ready on the flock of cases already argued, some of them going back to 1944. The Justices simply took their places on the bench, announced action on 92 petitions for review of lower court decisions, and resumed hearing arguments on cases already docketed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 11/13/1946 | See Source »

...there is no barrier to exchange of their ministers and ministries. Every church's ministry is effective as a means by which the life of Christ reaches His people. Every church's ministry is defective because it is prevented from operating in all the folds of His flock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Full Communion | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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