Word: revs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...March issue of Motion Picture, a fan magazine which normally confines itself, to rhapsodic accounts of the stars' daily routines, is a triptych of articles on "Divorce in Hollywood." The authors: famed churchmen of three faiths -Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein, and the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick. All three agree that 1) the true strength of a nation rests on the family; 2) the off-again-on-again marriages of Hollywood stars set a bad national fashion-and are at least partly responsible for the soaring U.S. divorce rate; 3) Hollywood marriage, therefore...
Argentina has sent the Rev. Jose Clemente Silva to screen the applicants. He takes former Fascists, provided they have no criminal records, but rejects Communists. Last week, irritated by this discrimination, the Communist-dominated Italian Labor Federation demanded the right to select the emigrants and asked for guarantees of labor conditions in Argentina. Father Silva threatened to call the whole thing...
...dissatisfied Scott patient complained that the little black box was not the right, treatment for her; five experts for the state testified that that did not surprise them a bit. But four prominent Erie citizens, also Scott patients, had a different story. One of them, old Rev. John Keehley, said that after three months of Scott's wave treatment, his voice, cracked and failing these 20 years, grew strong enough to fill the Luther Memorial Church...
Strangest visitor to the cellar is a U.S. Army Negro chaplain, the Rev. Hoseah Washington Smith, of Jesus Church, Beulah, Louisiana. At first Yid thinks the chaplain is a sucker who will pay 60 smokes for Eve. But the Rev. Mr. Smith has a package which he says contains "calories...
...special convention of the diocese last week, the 1,000-odd clerical and lay delegates reached an obvious compromise. As new Bishop of New York they elected tall, cigaret-smoking Rt. Rev. Charles Kendall Gilbert, suffragan* bishop under Bishop Manning for the past 16 years. Bishop Gilbert knows his big, heterogeneous flock inside out, has maintained an average of 2,200 confirmations a year since becoming suffragan bishop. His chief drawback as a candidate was, paradoxically, a major factor in getting him elected. Bishop Gilbert is 68-which gives him only 3½ years in office before compulsory retirement...