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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the cheers & jeers still echoed from the square's shabby buildings, Roman Catholics gathered all over the country for special services. At Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral there were 10,000, in Washington's outdoor Sylvan Theater, 25,000. Gravely they offered a prayer for the "enslaved" Russian people and "those misguided souls," the Communists of all nations. Said Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen: "Communists are human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prayer for May Day | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...steps again demonstrated their sole raison d'etre yesterday evening as they formed the stage for the first of the two annual Harvard Glee Club Yard Concerts. While the Club is, by and large, repeating lighter works sung throughout the regular indoor season, the birds, transient aircraft, and other outdoor effects lend a new sound to the music that is all to the good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 5/7/1947 | See Source »

Shortly before 5, the Pope returns to his private apartment. After changing his leather "outdoor" shoes, he goes directly to the chapel, where he says the Rosary and part of the Breviary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope's Day | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Usully limited in number by the size of the its concert environs the club will appear on masse for the first time this year in the pair of outdoor performances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Full Glee Club Will Sing from Widener Steps Tomorrow in First of Two Yard Concerts | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...average miner lives in a company-owned, one-story, unpainted wooden shack more than 30 years old. Of 1,154 company houses surveyed, only one in ten had a bathroom with tub or shower; 75% had outdoor privies (few meeting minimum sanitary standards); less than half had piped-in water; only a third were properly screened. Well over half the towns had no sewage system or garbage collection; housewives often dumped garbage near the house or in foul streams running through the town (see cut). Though miners lack bathrooms at home, less than half the mines have showers for washing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life in a Mining Town | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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