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...civic pillar and the official Chaplain of famed Nancy Brown's column in the News. Dr. Jones possesses a roomful of Lincolniana and knows the calls of practically all U. S. birds. Dr. Jones's recipe for a good preacher: "He should get religion like a Methodist; experience it like a Baptist; be sure of it like a Disciple; stick to it like a Lutheran; pay for it like a Presbyterian; conciliate it like a Congregationalist; glorify it like a Jew; be proud of it like an Episcopalian ; practice it like a Christian Scientist; propagate it like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Federal Council's Biennial | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...scene of a less publicized, less spectacular event. Paying nothing to get in, 18,000 New Yorkers settled themselves among its 20,000 seats. There was music by a Salvation Army band, a massed choir from city churches, a single speech. The speaker was that ever zealous Methodist Missionary, Rev. Dr. E. (for Eli) Stanley Jones. Cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mission's End | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...aircraft carrier Lexington who explained that he had fallen in love with Cinemactress Rogers after seeing her dance in Follow the Fleet. Campaigning for birth control, Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn, mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, two sons and two other daughters, declared in New Haven, Conn.'s First Methodist Church: "If you aren't frank about sex, your children will never confide in you again. When I explained scientifically and specifically to one of my daughters how she was born, she said: 'Oh. then I can have a baby without getting married. Oh, that's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

While the spirited young Spanish people continued last week to exterminate each other , the Nanking Government of the venerable Chinese people commenced a bribery experiment noble in motive. That stanch Methodist, Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, turned his other cheek toward Mongol and Manchukuoan forces which have been invading Suiyuan, the strategic Chinese province north of the Great Wall. To those invaders who would transfer their allegiance to China, he publicly offered the following bribes, described with cultivated euphemism as "rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Noble Experiment | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...year ago Southern Methodist v. Texas Christian was as good a game as any for claim to the U. S. championship. Last week at Dallas, it was still a major game, but only for the Southwest Conference title, to which Texas Christian's claim was weakened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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