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...League of the Militant Godless was organized. Headed by the late Emelyan Yaroslavsky (TIME, Dec. 13), the encomiast of Stalin, the Godless numbered more than 5,500.000 members at their heyday. They published two magazines, Bezbozhnik (The Godless) and Anti-religioznik (The Anti-religionist). In their lettuce days, the Godless organized anti-religious parades with floats burlesquing religious subjects such as the Immaculate Conception. These capers disgusted many Russians, made bad publicity abroad, and were finally called off. Public debates between priests and the Godless were also tried, also had to be called off. The priests held their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Break-Through | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...Pacific, got 78% of the votes cast by the Football Writers' Association for the game's "man of the year." His Navy trainees had polished off all but two of their nine tough opponents. At the same time (20-odd years after his team-producing heyday at the University of Chicago), 128 coaches on a New York World-Telegram panel hailed him as their outstanding colleague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Shapes | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...tank named Lulubelle is isolated during Rommel's African heyday. Under Humphrey Bogart's command, it staggers southward through sand and heat. Fuel and water run short. The crew picks up first a mixed batch of English and Empire men, later a Sudanese soldier (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), finally an arrogant young Nazi ace (Kurt Krueger). Half dead with thirst, this military mixed grill at last reaches an abandoned well, finds a choked dribble of water. There, as they die off one by one, the Allied men manage through a series of improbable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Many a senior class voted him its most inspiring professor. When he was upset in 1920 by Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, the Phelps heyday at Yale was passing. By then Billy Phelps's literary notions were not even modern in the eyes of the sophisticated '20s. They could not agree with him that the swing of Eddie Guest's verse was "perfect," Walt Whitman "nothing but a Sears-Roebuck catalogue with calliope accompaniment."* Some of them were interested in James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis. Phelps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale's Phelps | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

There were 6,600 different items in the auction, some of them in lots of more than 5,000. To Chicagoans, auctioneering Samuel L. Winternitz & Co.'s 995-page inventory brought nostalgic reminders of the hotel's heyday in the '20s. To the buyers who flocked into auction headquarters in the 21-story Electric Garage, the lots were mouth-watering reminders of the days before rationing and stop-production orders. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Bowling Alleys & Bellboys' Ties | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

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