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...Japanese bishops who will now rule the church's 30,000 communicants voted to reject all foreign financial aid. Probable shot: withdrawal of the 85 U. S. Episcopal missionaries in Japan (they could not live on a rice-Christian's income), closing of many an Episcopal mission, slimmer salaries for native clergymen and catechists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God and the Emperor | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Snapped by the fashion photographer with a young demoiselle, also clad in the taller, slimmer motif except for a certain softness through the bodice to give becoming, feminine lines, the Glamour Boy of Leverett House was theoretically demonstrating how men's clothes are influencing the fall female wardrobe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOVELY BAYARD STONE MODELS SWISHY WARDROBE FOR VOGUE | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

...Joliot-Curie is thought to have feared that her father would be dwarfed by Garbo). Author Huxley, who has treated Hollywood with marked reserve, would like to write an original screen comedy. So far his only other product made in California is a grim, fantastic novel, After Many a Slimmer Dies The Swan (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...Scandinavia went to the aid of Finland, it would be an invitation: 1) to Russia to move in on the north; 2) to Germany to move in on the south. There was always a chance, though slim, that Russia would be satisfied with Finland, and there was an even slimmer chance that with enough unofficial help Finland might hold Russia indefinitely. So, officially, the Scandinavian States did the only thing they felt they could do: nothing. Denmark, which is most vulnerable to a German attack, plumped hard for neutrality. Foreign Ministers Halvdan Koht of Norway and Rickard Sandier of Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Help Wanted | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Elephant tennis players trimmed Lowell 6 to 3, but it is too late for Eliot to push Kirkland out of first place, since the Deacons have an almost clean record. Lowell still remains, in first place in the golf standings, but by a much slimmer margin then before the Bell boys tasted defeat yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Kirkland Boats Win Trial Heats | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

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