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Last week at an international Group houseparty in Interlaken, Switzerland gathered 2,000 Groupers from 40 nations. Though Oxford Group publicity (increasingly well-organized) featured such leaders as Foreign Minister J. A. N. Patijn of The Netherlands and Parliament President Carl J. Hambro of Norway-scheduled to speak at Interlaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moral Rearmament | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

For its grapes, the village of Velrans likes sunlight; for its cabbages, the adjoining village of Longeverne likes rain. One day, centuries back, the peasant folk of the two villages set out for the same shrine to pray for their respective needs. Brisk words led to a brisk battle, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

If I had been Mr. Fathead's ma, I would have batted his ears morning and night for seven years to teach him manners. He ain't got the sense the good Lord puts into a weasel. Why, the first day I saw him, he was rude enough to take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

Angel's Holiday (Twentieth Century-Fox) : a vehicle for wry-faced, eleven-year-old Jane Withers, in which she attempts first to blast, then to facilitate, a romance between two grown-up acquaintances.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

Meanwhile in. New York State, law enforcers were aroused over a young couple who had been illegally married since Jan. 15-Stanley Backus, 18, and Leona Roshia Backus, 12. Armed with a marriage license giving Leona's age as 18, and with their parents' approval, the couple had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Hath Joined | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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