Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Sunday morning at 10:00 (E.S.T.), NBC listeners are transported to a church of the air by the chords and tremolos of a studio organ, choristers singing such favorite hymns as Fairest Lord Jesus. After a simple prayer, well-groomed, grey-haired Dr. Sockman-who looks like a successful lawyer and talks like the man next door-preaches a sermon in everyday terms on subjects close to every listener: "Fears May Be Liars"; "How Easy Is Evil?''; "Does It Pay to Be Good...
...Heaven (20th Century-Fox) is an obviously costly production of the best-selling (more than a million copies) novel by Ben Ames Williams. The story's central idea might be plausible enough in a dramatically lighted black-&-white picture or in a radio show with plenty of organ background. But in the rich glare of Technicolor, all its rental-library characteristics are doubly glaring...
...more unfortunate that a composer of Handel's immense stature should be the author of only one work which has "lived." His prolific and unfailing genius produced, in a lifespan of 74 years, an amazing amount of organ and harpsichord music, 46 operas, and such oratorios as "Israel in Egypt," "Semele," and "Judas Maccabaeus," all of which have been almost completely neglected. Perhaps even "The Messiah" would have disappeared had it not become an accustomed ritual of Christmas...
...complicated by the fact that about one-sixth of TIME'S editorial mail is requests for information about, or suggested by, TIME stories. They range from the reasonable (requests for advice on the care and feeding of infants) to the sublime ("Do Hindus, Moslems and Mohammedans play organ music?"). They include urgent requests from doctors, lawyers, farmers, et al. Although TIME cannot always find the right answer, the batting average is high...
...Harbin. There was other good news from Manchuria for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government. The Nationalist Army organ Ho Ping Pao reported that the Russians had granted permission for Chiang's forces to occupy I) Changchun, Manchuria's capital, 2) Harbin, Northern Manchuria's rail hub, and 3) Dairen, Manchuria's most important harbor, where the Russians have trade rights. With these three cities, plus the Mukden arsenal and metropolis, the National Government would hold the keys to Manchuria's transport and industry...