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When his first senate term expired, Billy quit. His ambition was pointing to Washington, where California's aging Senator Hiram Johnson was living his last years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Dynasty & Destiny | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...after the "Great Disappointment," a Millerite named Hiram Edson of western New York was seized by a conviction that explained the whole sad mistake. What was meant by Daniel 8:14, he decided, was Christ's entrance into the second chamber of his sanctuary (in 1843-44) to examine the lives of all mortals living and dead, and to dispense the atonement he had paid for with his blood. This "investigative judgment," said Edson, was going on now; when it was completed, the great day of the Second Coming would dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace with the Adventists | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Most of the cast seemed infected by the professor's indiscretions, overdoing the broadest points, throwing away the few finer ones. Sylvia Stahlman (Eurydice) had the prettiest voice, at its best in The Old Time Religion ("Bacchus my king, O let's be romantic"), and Hiram Sherman (Jupiter) hammed his part happily, right down to losing his hula skirt. Musico-medienne Paula Laurence was the most professional of all as Miss P. (for Public) Opinion, "a vestal virgin with a bachelor's degree." Her message: break as many commandments as you please, except for "Thou shalt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Boffola | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...Adventures of Hiram Holliday (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). New comedy series, with Wally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Oct. 1, 1956 | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

Died. Grove Hiram Patterson, 74, editor (since 1926) of the Toledo Blade (circ. 194,780), home-folksy columnist ("Way of the World") and author (I Like People), a founder of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; of a heart attack; in Toledo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

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