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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental rules-hit fairly; stick to the issue. Down at Atlanta Penitentiary the boys can hardly wait for the program to go on Thursday nights. Just as ardent are some 5,000,000 U. S. radio listeners, including members of some 1,400 groups which gather weekly to hear the debates, fight them out locally later. Most eager of all are the thousands who vie weekly by mail for the 1,600 seats in Manhattan's Town Hall and a chance to heckle the speakers in person. Anxious, too, for a chance at the program are at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chance to Heckle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...most trying." For on Sunday the 37 diehards, backed by their bristling flocks, took their stand for Methodist Protestantism, made ready to repel invaders. This they accomplished peacefully, however. In most of the churches, new pastors courteously claimed the pulpits, were courteously refused, departed quietly-or even remained to hear a diehard's sermon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: This Is My Story | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...gets a general's pay, wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear confession, give extreme unction, sing mass at portable altars, at any time under any conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Aumoniers | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Swing's harmful little armful" drifted into town this week. The one and only Thomas "Fats" Waller is at the Southland with his band. And don't get the impression that when you go down there, you're going to hear fourteen or fifteen men earnestly endeavoring to blow their (and your) heads off. Far from this, Fats carries only six men in his band. But between some really mad kidding around, they get off some swell jazz for both listening and dancing...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...hear a little more than usual this year from the Pierian Sodality. The first Cambridge performance will be a joint concert with the Radcliffe Orchestra in early November, which will be followed closely by a Bach and Handel program including the fifth Brandenburg Concerto. This latter concert so early in the season represents a change in policy as two Cambridge performances are planned for this year rather than the customary...

Author: By L. C. Helvik, | Title: The Music Box | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

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