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In Rome last week, good Roman Catholics crossed themselves, averted their eyes from posters which blossomed on walls here & there in the city. The posters carried a blasphemous "Prayer of the Perfect Italian Fascist," which clumsily parodied the ancient supplications of Christians: Credo I believe in England, zone of tyranny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Black-out For the Vatican? | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Top honors for hot-weather music, however, go to the Harvard Glee Club, which on the steps of Widener sings stuff that is entertaining without being hackneyed, and light without degenerating into dinner-music, as happens so often at the Pops. Tonight's concert is garnered from a far broader...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: The Music Box | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

The Megiddos consider other people's Christmas a pagan festival, derived from the Roman Saturnalia, list 30 reasons why they are right. Sample reason: shepherds do not watch their flocks by night in Palestine's December. Other Megiddo beliefs: the planets are all inhabited by men in different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christmas Without Santa Glaus | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Probability was: House passage of modified Smith amendments during April; then a lingering death in the Senate Labor committee some time before the National Conventions meet; then a resurrection of the issue in the Presidential campaign.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Again, NLRB | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

A rough-cut, reverent set of lyrics, they skimmed the Lincoln legend from hollow-log cradle to resurrection, not missing the Lincoln-Douglas debate, in which Abe's words "flashed home like singing bullets, Steve's jumped fence like frisky pullets." Liveliest lines: on an apocryphal schoolroom spelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spelldown | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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