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When the 5th Marine Division cemetery was dedicated on bloody, windswept Iwo Jima, the sermon was delivered by the division's Jewish chaplain, Roland B. Gittelsohn. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Purest Democracy | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Less petrifyingly powerful, but very persuasive too, is the Army's The Enemy Strikes, an eloquently written, well-edited sermon against the relaxations of optimism, which uses captured German film recording von Rundstedt's December counteroffensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...girls fainted during the sermon. Miss Mac remarked afterward: "Now I know how Frank Sinatra feels when he sends them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miss Mac | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...warm, musical voice, the Rev. Mr. Settle usually introduces the choir's songs with a bit of sermonizing. While he and his 21 -voice troop are traveling and singing abroad, he suspects that the fighting men "may also get a bit of sermon and Bible-reading now and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spirituals Go to War | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Last week the Rev. Douglas Cedarleaf, 31, decided to take a hand. First, he preached a sermon, "Vandalism in Throop Street," to his Erie Chapel Presbyterian Church (white) congregation (which included the Strongs). Then he taught them the great Negro anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. And then he asked them to escort the Strongs home. Some 135 of the congregation's 175 did. Throop Street heard them coming: they were all singing the anthem. At the Strongs' doorstep they formed a circle. Curious neighbors leaning out of their windows saw the minister give the Strongs a Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Throop Street | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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