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When Fitzgerald appears with his pseudo-nut, he is greeted by the most revolting collection of relatives in recent movie history. Monty Woolley does a tremendous take-off on the Easterner who hates California ("Wonderful climate for a grape, which I am NOT!"). Ilka Chase plays a cousin with whom Woolley favorably compares Lucretia Borgia, and her son is a particularly apt caricature of a professional ladies...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

...little, scampered out of the kitchen as fast as it could. Television, being at the beginner's level, still spends a lot of its time in the kitchen. Most TV recipe shows are as flat as stale beer, but one stands out from the rest like a glistening grape in a flavorless aspic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Airborne Recipes | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...kept himself alive as a dishwasher, engine cleaner, grape picker, ranch hand and art photographer-and studied painting at night. "I have done nearly everything except commercial art," he recalls, "but it is not true when they say I worked as a butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sad Man | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...whatever denominational name Christians call themselves, whether they receive the Sacrament standing or kneeling at an altar rail or in their pews, whether they drink wine in a chalice, or grape juice in a paper cup, or drink nothing at all, Christians all over the world next Sunday will be performing the supreme Christian rite-the Holy Communion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bread & the Cup | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Instead of spending a tin-horn-paper-hat New Year's Eve, delegates held a midnight communion service-perhaps the largest in Methodist history-at which 10,900 tiny paper cups of grape juice and pieces of bread were distributed. Later boys & girls signed "Dedication Cards," on which they could check off any number of twelve "decisions for Christ" printed on the back. Sample: "I will choose my lifework, not for personal profit, but in accordance with . . . God's will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Young Methodists | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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