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...women) will spend a good deal of time answering questions. During the war, W.I.B.'s New York office answered an average of 50 telephone and mail queries a day. Typical questions: Has Halifax a good private school? What provinces can an ice carnival play in on the Sabbath? "Dear Sirs: Please send all possable infermeation as I need the infermeation for school thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Voice | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Moreover, the picture is a Thespian witches' Sabbath. Except when she overuses her eyes in fey moments, Jennifer Jones more than delivers on the promise of her Song of Bernadette. Restrained Joseph Gotten gives the film its needed ballast of sanity. Hilt-deep supporting performances are contributed by Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, and a brilliant Australian named Ann Richards. She has three-alarm beauty and four-alarm talent, and is the only screen actress since Ingrid Bergman to look wonderful in a shirtwaist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 10, 1945 | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Mordecai Kaplan, always an unorthodox thinker, began outraging Jewish fundamentalists a decade ago by launching the "reconstructionist" movement to liberalize Hebrew doctrine. The issue last week was a newly published Sabbath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Old & the New | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Private Doss had planned to spend his Saturday (the Adventist Sabbath) as usual -in prayer and meditation. His commanding officer came to his tent and asked if he would forego the privilege that day; Doss happened to be the only corpsman available to a company scheduled to attack an escarpment. Doss said: "Captain, it is fine with me, but you'll have to wait a few minutes while I read my Bible here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: CO Hero | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early, in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. . . . And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: He Is Risen | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

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