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The most fabulous of them all was Ned Buntline (Colonel E. Z. C. Judson), who led a life as strenuous as his fiction. He killed his man in a pistol duel in Nashville, Tenn., was mobbed by his victim's friends and saved from lynching when a friend of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Yellowbacks | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

The Damned Don't Cry (Warner), but Joan Crawford does, in this true-confession-type story of a woman's sinful progress from hard times to easy virtue. First, like many of her fans, she is a shiny-nosed household drudge, bored and burdened with a husband who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 17, 1950 | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Evangelist Graham's is the oldtime religion, even though it comes through a public-address system. But he spruces it up with streamlined metaphors of his own. Said he of Judgment Day: "God is going to say, 'Start up the projector!' Because from the cradle to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heaven, Hell & Judgment Day | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Almost anywhere else, a ceremonial kiss is part of every high-school queen's inaugural. But not in Bethany, Okla. Most of its 2,600 citizens are Nazarenes, members of a strict sect close to the fundamentalist Methodists, who consider public kissing sinful, along with beer halls, smoking, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rebellion in Bethany | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

"An angakok doesn't consider sinful what a white preacher considers sinful, but knows only one kind of sin - that which harms the community . . . An angakok . . . believes in every spirit [but] the white men are exceedingly narrow-minded and conceited people, and that's the reason why they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Bears & Men | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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