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Next, the Gimo turned to General Ho Ying-chin, staunch antiCommunist, former war minister and chief of staff. While a Chinese representative at U.N. last year, General Ho had attended a Buchmanite meeting at Niagara Falls.* Friends said that he was a changed man. But, even fortified by moral rearmament, General Ho was not anxious for the headaches of the premiership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Earthquake Man | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Presbyterian churchmen decided that at its next meeting the presbytery would look long and hard at the circumstances under which Presbyterian Minister Stewart P. MacLennan considered himself at liberty to marry thrice-divorced Cinemactress Lana Turner to thrice-divorced Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. The presbyteries of Buffalo-Niagara, N.Y. and New Brunswick, N.J.-plus many a minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory of Worship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Vineyard, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...trip to Niagara Falls plus a debutante dance after the concert will feature the Club's stay in Buffalo on Wednesday, March 31. Final concerts of the tour are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 2 and 3, in Petham, New York, and Irvington, New Jersey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Clubbers Await Annual Spring Jaunt | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

...Sound of Niagara. By last week, this peculiar state of mind had not only sucked thousands of American oil wells dry, stripped the rubber groves of Malaya, produced the world's most inhuman industry and its most recalcitrant labor union, but had filled U.S. streets with so many automobiles that it was almost impossible to drive one. In some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Last Traffic Jam | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Early one bright Hollywood day that dawned on rumors of a romance between Joan Crawford and Don Barry, the cowboy actor, Miss Crawford's telephone tinkled. From the other end swooshed a Niagara of italicized insinuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gossipist | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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