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Thus, as he will every week for the next year, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux took his famed Radio Church of God from its Washington, D.C., tabernacle to Manhattan "to open a second front against the Satanic kingdom." For singing the devil and hell out of a town, Elder Michaux-self-styled "General of the International Forces of Right against Wrong"-has at least one solid endorsement: successive police chiefs in Washington have declared his preaching reduces crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Second Front in Harlem | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Joyous Thermometers. Reported the London Daily Telegraph's A. T. Cholerton: "The Moscow Command orders are: 'Drop your pack and go lightfoot after them. Then you will probably encircle and destroy them piecemeal and, in any case, you will force them to leave their stores behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Will to Win | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Such devotional exercises, interspersed with a rollicking theme hymn called "Happy Am I," have become familiar to many a U. S. radio listener during the past year. Broadcast from Washington over the CBS network every Saturday night, the Church of God of Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux is a lively Negro romp, noisy and syncopated as some white folks believe all black worship should be. Last week for the first time Elder Michaux took his choir of 40 and his jazz orchestra of ten out of Washington to capitalize their fame. For his first appearance he chose stolid Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Happy Am I | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...charming war-horse of the Theatre Guild, is therefore not called upon to add Wings Over Europe to Major Barbara and Strange Interlude, her present assignments. The male actors are uniformly as good as Guild casts should be, acting the preposterous caricatures of the Cabinet members. Alexander Kirkland is Lightfoot, the worker of wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...means that its excitements are cerebral and that spectators, leaving the theatre in their cabs, will be aroused to the point of shouting each other down with explanations of its meanings and with speculations as to what each one would have done, had he or she been the luckless Lightfoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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