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As an orator, George Truett has been compared with Bryan, Henry Grady, the great Baptist Evangelist Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Last week, after his 50,000 Baptists had paraded down Atlanta's Peachtree Street, with flags, bands and detachments of troops.* Baptist Truett opened the Alliance congress in the baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Messengers in Atlanta | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

This plea, crooned in a soft baritone over the twanging of a cracked and patched guitar, once swayed Texas' Governor Pat Morris Neff into granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lead Belly | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

> The Duchess of Windsor was last week reported to be eating garlic, long esteemed by Koreans as an aid to fertility. The Duchess was one of the "twelve most glamorous women in the world" invited to a tea given by Lady Mendl in Paris for Dr. H. B. Hauser, Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Windsors' Week | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Since Don Juan, however sinful, is most attractive character, many an author has used the legend. There are variants by Molière, Shadwell, Mozart, Mérimée Dumas père, Byron, Balzac, Shaw. Not overanxious to compete with such a talented gallery, yet fascinated by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Juan, Cont'd | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

The church leaders heard speeches and reports last week, of which the most outspoken was the report of the Committee on the State of the Church, headed by President John Alexander Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary. Critical of present-day church life ("smug and complacent"), the report said: "The churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestantism's Voice | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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