Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Istanbul's paved boulevards and narrow cobbled streets echo with the shrill tootle of otomobiller dodging rickety, horse-drawn carts and blind beggars. Smoke-blackened industrial towers, dubbed "Ataturk's minarets," jut skyward between the graceful spires of the Ottomans. The muezzin still calls the faithful to prayer, but in place of flowing robes, he wears a Western business suit. Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements. In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee...
Adman Bruce Barton (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) knows just how he sells products and ideas: "Say it simply, say it over & over, say it in one-syllable words." He rates the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm and the Gettysburg Address as triumphs of simplicity and brevity: each contains fewer than 500 words, mostly of one and two syllables. Last week Adman Barton was getting ready to turn out a new weekly column of personal and social comment for Hearst's King Features. It will be written in no more than 500 words, mostly...
...newcomer to journalism, Barton once wrote editorials for a Sunday supplement called Every Week and then for Redbook magazine on such homely topics as prayer, success, happiness and free enterprise ("the system of hustle and hope"). After writing his bestselling life of Jesus (The Man Nobody Knows), depicting Him as "The Founder of Modern Business," Barton did a column ("Bruce Barton Says") for McClure's syndicate. Later he signed with King Features...
...crowd of 10,000 thronged to join the hallelujah chorus. Before a papier-mãché globe surmounted by doves, black-robed Shinto priests in formal vestments, shaved Buddhists in red, blue and saffron robes, turbaned Moslems and black-clad Japanese Episcopal ministers stood rigidly in silent prayer for peace...
Power of the Word. In Los Angeles, Joseph Weissman was booked for assaulting his wife with a deadly weapon: a prayer book...