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...Chapel of Our Faith" began when the outpost's recreation building, where religious services had been held, caved in under the weight of snow. Navy Petty Officer C. Norman Engel, 37, of Spring Lake. N.J., requested permission to build a chapel in its place out of spare lumber, and all members of the group worked at the project-painting, decorating, or just shoveling snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church at the Pole | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Administration and the Government's No. 2 housing man. As a replacement for Albert M. Cole, 57, who is resigning to take a big job with a Reynolds Metals Co. subsidiary, Administrator Mason moves into the top job with plenty of experience behind him. A onetime Chelmsford, Mass, lumber dealer, Mason went to the FHA in 1954 when it was reeling from the windfall profits scandals, promised that "we're going to live in a goldfish bowl from now on." He was as good as his word. Mason cleaned up the FHA, went on to speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Switch at the Top | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...that the study of Latin is a training for the muscles of the mind." But the Daily Mirror's Cassandra argued that Latin had muscle-bound his mind. He began by declining mensa (table), then wrote: "This nonsense I have been carrying around with me in the lumber room of my mind for 40 years. Like the geese of Strasbourg, I was force fed . . . and I still can't unlearn to talk to a table or a squad of tables, addressing them correctly in Latin, saying: 'O tables . . .' It's about time the tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sic Transit? | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

High Adventure (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Wildebeest bound, elephants lumber, hippopotamuses wallow, and Lowell Thomas clambers up Central Africa's Mountains of the Moon. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Possibly because the line of journalistic duty runs through so many dreary assembled prides of Lions, lumber dealers, plumbers and Jaycees. newsmen usually make indifferent conventioners. Faced with a gathering of their own clan, they either ignore it or show up reluctantly, prepared to sit out the interminable sessions in bored and unresponsive silence. Last week's silver anniversary convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association at French Lick, Ind. was no exception, but before the session was over, the editors got down to some plain talk about themselves. Items: ¶Nieman Curator Louis M. Lyons, onetime Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Plain English at French Lick | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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