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...longer short, Picture Parade, makes one regret the Brattle's recent boycott of Magoo. It depicts scenic spots across America including caves in Oregon "so unusual they are under government protection." The cartoon concerns Pepe le Pew, an unsatisfied skunk...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Spiral Staircase | 10/19/1956 | See Source »

...Rest. But the happiest day is Sunday, the family day, the day of rest. Unfailingly, when he is able, J.D.R. Jr. attends morning service at the Congregational Church, always attired in a black suit, always on time, always taking his place in the second pew from the front on the left-hand side of the aisle. After the service he exchanges greetings with the minister and with some of the islanders in neighborly, not seignioral fashion. Back home in The Eyrie, he gathers the available members of his family around a crackling fire of pine and birch logs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Good Man | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...worth of lingerie for his wife, $25,700 worth of jewelry, $1,100 worth of Havana cigars, ten typewriters, assorted washing machines, television sets and kitchen stoves, and a station wagon to transport his purchases back to the chateau. On his way home, he stopped to reserve a pew for himself and his family in the village church. He paid for everything by check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Down lor the Count | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...complete ostracism. My relatives speak to me on the street, but that's all." Royce explained seriously that "we won't go to the back door of Stuart's family's house-and things could be awkward in church, because he has a front pew." But Outerbridge wants to stick it out, even though "lots of people would like to break me. However, if I get through the slack season, I'll be all right. I think we've found happiness; Royce is a wonderful person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERMUDA: Ostracism | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Music Hath Charms. In Chicago, Church Organist Robert J. Metzler, 50, got a court injunction against Harriet Davis, thirtyish, and her mother, Mrs. Belle Davis, fiftyish, complained that for four years they had upset his organ playing by coming to church on Sundays and ogling him from the front pew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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