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Some strange new names were glowing on movie marquees last week-Betty ("Ball of Fire") Rowland, Genii Young, Deenah Prince-and there were stranger things inside. In such films as International Burlesque, a New York outfit named Jewel Productions was profitably peddling a-brand-new movie line: old-fashioned flesh-and-spangle shows straight from the burlesque stage, converted to the screen with slight additions to the costumes and subtractions from the gags...
Missionaries have now become a serious embarrassment to their Chinese Christian friends. This is one of the reasons why most U.S. Protestant missionaries are pulling out of China, according to Dr. Rowland M. Cross, Far Eastern missions secretary of the National Council of Churches...
...talking animals who live in the Okefenokee Swamp and call themselves "nature's screetures." Pogo himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns and nonsense verse: "Oh, the parsnips were...
...evening last summer, British Disc Jockey Christopher Rowland, bored with requests for a hit of the moment, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake, flipped his Cake record over, played Songstress Eve Young's swingy version of the oldtimer. Almost at once, BBC listeners began shifting allegiance...
Korea was once rated one of the most Christianized of Far Eastern lands; in 1914, 1% of the 15,500,000 population were Christians. Since the Japanese occupation and the Russian-U.S. partition, no reliable figures are available. But about the Christians who are left, Dr. Rowland M. Cross, secretary for the Far East for the Foreign Missions Conference, has no doubts. Said he: "The Korean Christians are the stuff that martyrs are made of, and we expect them to hold fast...