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...snake charmer, the drum beater, and the man who operated a crude wooden Ferris wheel were there in full force, as they and their ancestors had been for more than a century. The entrance to the sylvan temple of Sipi was decorated with paper flowers, as it always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mood under a Pine Tree | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

While the cheers & jeers still echoed from the square's shabby buildings, Roman Catholics gathered all over the country for special services. At Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral there were 10,000, in Washington's outdoor Sylvan Theater, 25,000. Gravely they offered a prayer for the "enslaved" Russian people and "those misguided souls," the Communists of all nations. Said Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen: "Communists are human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prayer for May Day | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Anxiety dreams caused by emotional frustrations sometimes scare people to death, said Dr. Sylvan H. Robertson of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital. In such dreams, the heart and blood vessels "become surcharged and remain in a state of tension." Possible result: a heart attack while sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Take It Easy | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Apparently D'Argenlieu's patience had dwindled after twelve exasperating months in Indo-China. Last week the Vatican announced that he would again become merely Father Louis de la Trinité, retire to a monastery in sylvan Fontainebleau in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Death in the Monsoon | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Citizens who had expected a more dramatic transition-something like a motion-picture battle shot dissolving to a sylvan scene-had given up the idea. Life seemed just about as difficult and complicated as it was during the war. A good job was already hard to find. And where was the beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Shakedown I | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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