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...Chorus: He won't consent? Extremely queer He must be mad, it's very clear. Alice (weeping): Oh the disgrace, I cannot bear it... Freddie (in lilting three-quarter time): Her every action confesses The fortune she is worth The proudest of dollar princesses- Is sometimes the poorest on earth...(Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: The Dollar Princess | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...John William Charles Wand, decided that the time had come to do something drastic about British apathy toward the Anglican Church. The man he chose to organize the job was energetic Frank Tyler, 40, who had been parish priest in two of London's toughest, poorest suburbs. To labor in his teeming new vineyard, Tyler has 15,000 volunteer laymen missionaries. They are plastering London's walls with 55,000 posters, passing out a million handbills, selling 100,000 copies of a picture magazine, peddling Bibles and showing slides in 25 London theaters. It will all cost about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Revival in England | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...eight consecutive nights of revival meetings to be held in every local parish, beginning next week. Volunteers are assigned to 120 centers, each in charge of a specially trained priest. A typical center director is 36-year-old Rev. George Edmund Reindorp, whose parish includes some of the poorest and some of the most fashionable, sections of Westminster. Reindorp instructs his volunteer door-to-door canvassers always to knock three times-"once for the Father, once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost." He explained last week: "Generally the woman of the house will come to the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Revival in England | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Pernicious" School. Ordained in 1940, after a shortened course of studies, Father Herrera was appointed assistant pastor in one of the poorest sections of Santander. Here Don Angel, as his parishioners called him, saw at once how desperately Spain needed a socially conscious clergy. But though he did not fear to tread on this dangerous ground, Don Angel knew too much to rush in. Instead, he formed a small club called the Casa Sacerdotal. Priests came to the club, ostensibly to prepare their Sunday sermons. Actually they discussed world problems in terms of the most advanced Catholic social thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Liberals in Spain | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Siragusa also blasted the Zenith claim as "very poor advertising, about the poorest taste I ever saw . . . Nobody knows how or where or when the proposed new bands will fall." Admiral's Adman Seymour Mintz cried indignantly: "The public doesn't even know what a turret tuner is. All you have to do is put in some new condenser strips for higher frequencies. Just take out the old and put in the new. Why throw a scare into people before you need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Is Your Set Obsolete? | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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