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Revelation & Elongation. It all added up to one of the knottiest labor problems in history. Shifts had to be arranged according to the workers' respective religions, or else pious fanatics would toss aside their tools and start tearing out heretics' hair. Production once dropped to zero for a whole month while workers celebrated "the first revelation of the Koran to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel...
Died. Franz Werfel, 54, plump, pious Czech best-selling author of over 38 books (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Embezzled Heaven, The Song of Bernadette and the yet-unpublished Star of the Unborn), playwright (Jacobowsky and the Colonel), refugee U.S. resident since 1940; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Werfel, whose Forty Days was burned by the Nazis, fled Vienna and Paris two jumps ahead of Hitler's hordes, took refuge in Lourdes, France, where he heard of the vision of the little French Catholic girl, Bernadette Soubirous, and vowed to sing "her song" if he ever escaped...
Last week. Trader Selznick rode into the master's list with a bang. He announced that he had coupled his talents, audience prestige and star power (Hollywood's second best) with the distribution outlets and capital of Britain's movie king, tall, pious Joseph Arthur Rank. It was a deal that every major Hollywood studio had hoped to turn. Selznick made it during Rank's recent Hollywood visit (TIME...
...born author and scholar named George Findlay Willison has pieced together a brisk history of the Plymouth colony which should go far toward answering questions like this one. His Saints and Strangers is a far cry from the textbook story. His Pilgrim Fathers are as inept a crew of pious pioneers as ever tackled a howling wilderness...
...list of cumulative bestsellers over the years from 1880 to the present is In His Steps, a pious novel by the Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon describing a community which followed the teachings of Jesus literally. It has sold more than 8,000,000 copies. Close behind, in this order, are Scrapbookster Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia (4,000,000), Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (3,625,000), Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People (2,751,000), Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (2,500,000), and Marion Hargrove...