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...Protestant Japanese version of the Bible, like many in other languages, is so weighed down with archaic language that some sections make sense only to scholars. Last week a new translation of the New Testament went on sale, advertised to make the Bible understandable "in a train, bus or streetcar." The translator: the Rev. Tomio Muto, a Presbyterian minister and a former Tokyo judge, who was one of Tojo's leading propaganda writers during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nyuzu for Japan | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...passed, the law would make Wellesley and Simmons accossible by streetcar only, and isolate countless popular high-way eating and entertainment spots after dark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Driving Curfew Pushed For Students Under 21 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Most interesting question: How will Marlon Brando, whose Hollywood fame (The Men, A Streetcar Named Desire) is based on muttering and grumbling his lines in a Polish accent, sound reading the funeral oration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Et Tu, Brando? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...lumps and holes, with tiny breasts and huge, finlike legs. There were slim bronze stringbeans for human figures in City Square by Switzerland's Alberto Giacometti, wrought iron spikes and loops for a Woman Combing Her Hair by Spain's Julio Gonzalez, tinkling wire tendrils for a Streetcar by U.S. Mobilist Alexander Calder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Track Through the Jungle? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...Olympian task, and it is no wonder that Director George Abbott was forced to throw in a liberal sprinkling of decolletages and torch singing to keep the play moving. Bumps and grinds are all right in their place, but one can't help wondering, after Othello, Streetcar, and Saint Joan, whether Miss Hagen's talents do not lie in other directions...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: In Any Language | 9/25/1952 | See Source »

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