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Soprano Margaret Truman, bedizened with full stage makeup, opened Atlanta's concert season by packing every one of the Municipal Auditorium's 5,000 seats, plus 100 chairs placed in the orchestra pit for the overflow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Directions | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Actress Madeleine Carroll crashed the taboo against women in Lamont Library yesterday when she visited it to tell an overflow audience in the Forum Room how much she hated Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madeleine Carroll Sidesteps Lamont Ban, Reviles Hollywood Before Mob | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

Yesterday & the Day Before. In the wet, early morning, thousands thronged Bonn's churches for special services. Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Brandenburg, a steadfast antitotalitarian, told an overflow congregation in the Martin Luther Church: "We must break our ties with the day before yesterday, for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesterday. Let us create a new day in which God's will prevails." By "the day before yesterday" he meant the Weimar republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Trying Over | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Sobering Statistics. Addressing an overflow crowd in the Laurence Frost Amphitheater, Hoover wore a soft collar instead of his once-familiar high, stiff one, but there was nothing soft-collared about his message. "We're on the last mile to collectivism," he declared. "Dynamic progress is not made with dynamite. And that dynamite today is the geometrical increase in the spending of our governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Progress Without Dynamite | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Institute of Technology. After two years as a practising architect the new "pater" left his drawing board for the ministry, now has 15 bustling years in Midwestern parishes behind him. In the last eight years he has swelled his Madison, Wis. congregation from 600 to 1,500, housed the overflow in a streamlined Quonset-type chapel which he helped to design. When Kent trustees began looking for a "live-wire with a soul" to head Kent last spring, they lit on John Patterson as their man, persuaded him to exchange his varied duties as parish rector for the narrower duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Pater | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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