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Died. Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler, 74, famed Alsatian-born composer (Mort de Tintagiles, Pagan Poem, Evocation); in Medfield, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 27, 1935 | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...listening to their hoarse cheers, sharpening his intuition. About all the preparation Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath had been able to make was to persuade the Ministry of Interior with great difficulty, to release from jail and house arrest several hundred Protestant pastors locked up for denouncing Naziism as "pagan," Sir John Simon being the son of a clergyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Berlin Mission | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...pagan tendencies in present-day life afflict all open and attentive eyes. For many people, life is specifically and paganly given over only to pleasure, to the quest after pleasure and to amusement that is specifically and paganly immodest, with an immodesty that often exceeds that of ancient pagan life, inasmuch as it is addicted to what is termed, with a horrible word and horrible blasphemy, the practice and cult of nudity. In ancient times nudity existed only in art and could not be said to exist in life, neither in Rome nor Greece, and that is saying very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope on Nudism | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

Honduras. While tatterdemalion Christians sought refuge in the catacombs beneath Pagan Rome, the Mayas of Central America were spreading from city to city a glittering civilization. One such metropolis was Copan. Archeologists were at work there a half century ago, unearthing elaborately carved steles and sacrificial altars. Last year earthquakes rocked the region, sent some of the ruins tumbling into the Copan River. At the invitation of the Honduras Government, a commission from the Carnegie Institution of Washington arrived last month to undertake restoration and protection. Behind a collapsed wall Head Commissioner Gustav Stromsvik was startled to find stone staircases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...pound class: Pagan (T) defeated Edward J. Petrenik '37 (H), by decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY MATMEN LOSE TO TUFTS TEAM, 17-11 | 1/18/1935 | See Source »

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