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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the banquet table in St. Louis' Sheraton Hotel one night last week, a round-faced man sat beaming at the dozens of guests who had come to honor him. He was a man that a whole generation of schoolchildren should have known, for Waldo P. Johnson had revolutionized the spelling book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Speller | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Hallmark Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). Silent Night, narrated by James Hilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

White-haired Lorenzo Garcia, the only man allowed within its walls, had been the cloister's sexton for almost 40 years when his curiosity about the tombs finally got the better of him. One night while the nuns were safely asleep, Garcia pried open one of the coffins with a heavy metal hook. After fishing around patiently, he pulled out a fragment of gold brocade. Then, afraid of a sound scolding from the abbess, he hid his find, kept his secret to himself. Finally Garcia confided in Archeologist José Luis Monteverde, curator of national property. Monteverde communicated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Curious Sexton | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Beds. From all over Christendom pilgrims visit him (some 80,000 are expected during the coming Holy Year), and the church values Padre Pio for his potent influence on the faithful. His mail is voluminous; five of his brother monks are busy from morning to night answering letters addressed to him from all over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Stigmatist | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Though Mass is normally a matter of some 30 minutes, he may take an hour and a half to say it because he often groans, weeps or passes into a state of ecstasy. After Mass he begins hearing confessions of the streams of men & women who wait through the night at the church door in all kinds of weather. Confessions are finished at 1 in the afternoon; then the bearded Capuchin sits down to his single meal of the day: a bunch of herbs and a few small pieces of bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Stigmatist | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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