Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never listened so widely or so intensely to radio news before, and it bought more receiving sets during the crisis than in any previous three weeks of radio history. At the end of his 18-day stint, Kaltenborn was so groggy that when the Archbishop of Canterbury's prayer for peace came in over the short wave, he analyzed that...
...graveside is dedicated by extemporaneous prayer. Lieut. Francis W. Read, an Episcopalian from Glendale, Calif., and Lieut. Clarence J. Merriman, a heroic Baptist of Shawnee, Okla., who has been under fire as much as any soldier, alternate in reading the committal service...
Canny, suave Eli Oberstein asks no embarrassing questions. His recordings bear such names as Johnny Jones, Willie Kelly. Oberstein's Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer and You'll Never Know, have rolled up sales of 200,000 discs. Irritated Boss Petrillo has been unable to find anything amiss. "It's very simple," remarks Eli Oberstein, "I pick up any tune I like, and the records just come...
...writer, there is something mighty inspiring in the knowledge that the Commander came out of retirement at the beginning of the war, to again serve his country as our Officer in Charge. It is the students' hope and prayer that he will have smooth sailing (as a Convey Commander), for as one of the fellows remarked, "Gee, I hope when my assignment comes through, I'll have a skipper like Commander MacGowan...
When the critics made up their minds, they had ruled out Roy Harris' "agricultural" Fifth Symphony (TIME, March 8), Aaron Copland's melodramatic Lincoln Portrait, William Schuman's timely but tiresome Prayer-1943, Morton Gould's featherweight Spirituals for String, Choir and Orchestra. The award went to Manhattan-born Paul Creston, 36, for his neat, rather brittle, and relatively old-fashioned First Symphony...