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...rites in 42 A.D. This year, since none of the Israeli government leaders is strictly Orthodox, the head of the state was represented by Jerusalem's chief cantor, who read the Torah from the top of a truck. As he finished, old men blew on the double ram's-horn. Pilgrims wearing rich prayer shawls cried out in jubilation, dancing and clapping their hands to the jangling of tambourines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shmita: 5712 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...Baby (Frank Sinatra; Columbia). Crooner Sinatra, who has been in need of a hit record for years, turns up in a socko mood that might turn the trick, "dim clam cleanup the rim ram room," shouts Frankie, " 'cause your bim bam baby's comin' home tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Aug. 11, 1952 | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...They don't even get out to look at a fender." But more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist: "The driver behind a traffic crawler gets angry. His reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles -no automobiles at all." But though postwar motorists were gradually becoming horn-blowing neurotics with tendencies toward drinking, cat-kicking and wife-beating, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...became a feverish rush last week. The Peronista majority in Congress voted to build a monument to her. The governor of Buenos Aires Province ordered her autobiography, The Reason for My Life, used as a textbook in all the province's public schools. Health Minister Ramón Carillo directed that in 508 hospitals and clinics under his department Masses be said for her "quick and complete recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Spiritual Chief | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...North get over the Civil War as the South has? Why is it that every time a Southerner tries to do something for the good of the nation, you Yankees have to ram the Civil War down his throat? The South has been exploited by Yankee interests long enough. We are.now coming into our own, and the bloody flag has lost its political power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1952 | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

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