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...Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church displayed a rare 1617 "Breeches Bible," so called because it says that Adam & Eve "sewed figgetree leaves together and made themselves breeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bible Crusade | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...victim, a poor 67-year-old Russian Jew, with the typical leonine face of a skin leper, has been in & out of half a dozen Philadelphia clinics, where he was treated for body lice, sinus trouble, hardening of the arteries, a broken hip. At last doctors at Presbyterian Hospital, after treating him off & on for two years, diagnosed his most important ailment. Leprosy is extremely rare-there are only about 350 cases (mostly from coastal cities) in the U.S. leprosarium in Louisiana (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leper Loose | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...Peter Marshall, Presbyterian, said Esquire's jokes, articles and cartoons create "the impression that virginity . . . is a thing to be joked about," and added: "I believe that womanhood has definitely been lowered by the achievement of equality with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Experts Blushed | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Probably the most famous living Negro, Paul Leroy Robeson was born 45 years ago in Princeton, NJ. His father, a run away slave in his youth, was a deeply respected, deep-voiced Presbyterian minister ("When people talk about my voice," say Robeson, "I wish they could have heard my father preach"). Entering Rutgers on a scholarship, Paul wound up in Phi Beta Kappa and a four-letter man. In football he was twice chosen by Walter Camp as All-America end-"the greatest defensive end," said Camp, "that ever trod the gridiron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Slaughtered Saints. The U.S. Italian Protestant ministers spoke not only for their own congregations (Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian), but for Italy's Protestants who cannot speak for themselves. Most of these are Waldensians who originated in 12th-Century France, have lived chiefly in the Piedmontese Alps for 650 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle for Italy | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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