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Last week, after more than 20 years of such torment, death-ironically, from a heart ailment-came to Percy Emerson Brown, 74, a martyr to the Roentgen rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Without Armor | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...door in very shallow, incised bas-relief to achieve an effect of depth through drawing and flat planes. The large left-hand panel of his door showed such great teacher-saints as John the Baptist, Augustine, Benedict, Ignatius and John Bosco. The right-hand panel included such confessor-and martyr-saints as Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Joan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Door of Death | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Bridges had simply provided the Communists with another martyr's halo, they said. "A Bridges singled out and jailed by arbitrary judicial action while he is prosecuting with diligence his good-faith appeal poses to our minds a more serious menace to the nation and our Constitution than does a Bridges [free] on bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: In & Out | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter of a mile. Calling upon the world to follow the example of "the little sweet Martyr of Purity," he asked the young people in the crowd whether they would resist any attempt against their virtue. "Si!" they shouted in chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Little Martyr | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...counterattacked, recaptured all points, crushed the rebellion. At least 50 civilians and eight soldiers were killed, scores more wounded. By noon, except for occasional sniping from rooftops, the uprising was over. Rebel Chieftain Mostajo was arrested, then released because the army feared that jailing would put him in a martyr's niche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolt in Arequipa | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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