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There have been four clinics so far--called Great or Boston Student Government Conferences--and it looks like the student government people are going to need a clinic on how to run a clinic. The NSA people, despite their pious protestations, are acting suspiciously as though they want to make the Greater Boston Group a subcommission of the NSA. This would eliminate those schools who do not want to become part of an NSA subcommission. At the same time, such a move would do little except gratify some NSA people who like to make noises like politicians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Councils' Clinic | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...noon, two pious Jews chosen by the rabbinate blew the shofar (ram's horn). Weizmann repeated the presidential oath with arm outstretched toward the Assembly, which rose on signal and shouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Road to Jerusalem | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Last week Molina's statue was the object of pious veneration in the fashionable La Ermita church in Cali. Before Easter it will be taken to 16th Century Popayan for the famed Holy Week procession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Craftsman's Christ | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...committee. Minnesota's New Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey canceled his engagement to speak. President Spyros Skouras of 20th Century-Fox withdrew his sponsorship. Like General Marshall before them, some of Dr. Shipler's guests were discovering to their surprise that The Churchman involved more complications than the pious good work that its name implies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Whose Front? | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Acres of Flesh. As This Week was a supplement in such family journals as the New York Herald Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer and 22 others, Nichols thought it would pay "to be decent." Said he: "I'm neither pious nor preachy but my first principle is success and [decency] has paid off in success. You can bore a mass audience to death with acres of flesh. Why did burlesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sunday Puncher | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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