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Police detectives have so far failed to turn up the key or the thief who broke into Brown's apartment Monday morning and made off with the key, shirt studs, an electric clock, a sun lamp, and a portable radio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refined Thief Robs Scholar's PBK Key | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

...Burmans threw them into prison. One convert, Ko Shwe Waing, was released and smuggled a Bible in the Karen language through the back jungle trails to his native village. There, while Karens guarded the house, he reverently unwrapped the mythical lost book in the flickering light of a primitive lamp. At the sight of the treasure, some villagers bowed down; some wept with happiness; others caressed the sacred object. For decades the Karen Baptists remained a persecuted religious minority. As late as 1851, one Burman ruler threatened to shoot the first Karen he caught who was able to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Baptist Rebellion | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...slogans, the music, the buses, boats and trains that carried out-of-towners to the city. It even organized the housewives to pack box lunches and send their husbands to the meeting. It was typical of Catholic Action's zealous exuberance that brown-robed Franciscan monks climbed on lamp posts and snapped pictures of the rally. Catholic Action speakers frequently engage Communist leaders in public debates. One of the most tireless debaters is a Dominican, Father Felix Morlion, who challenged Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti to a debate over Cardinal Mindszenty's trial. Togliatti sent a substitute, Communist Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: How to Fight Communists | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Great Scenes from Great Plays (Fri. 8 p.m., Mutual). Madeleine Carroll in The Lady with a Lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...horse, and ordered the animal shot. In a village near Lisbon, a truck dropped handbills which boasted that the government had brought electricity, a school, a cemetery to the district. In his dirt-floored stone house, an old man read the handbill-by the light of a kerosene lamp. Said he: "We've never lacked space to bury our dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Only Free Man | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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