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One occasion when joint prayer should be permitted: in doctrinal conferences with other denominations. "It is one thing to refuse joint prayer to heretics and persistent errorists; it is not quite the same thing to refuse joint prayer to the victims and unwitting heirs of heretics and errorists."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Pray or Not to Pray | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

There was much of the past that ex-Cinemactress Gene Tierney, 39, wanted to forget. Behind her were 31 movies, a divorce from sleek Couturier Oleg Cassini, a retarded daughter (Gene had German measles during the pregnancy) and five years, off and on, as a voluntary patient in private mental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 25, 1960 | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Died. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 70, Russian poet-novelist, an apolitical Christian humanist whose 1958 Nobel Prize made him an unwitting cold war cause célèbre; of cancer: in Peredelkino, Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS ).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

The Cambridge City Council yesterday refused to consider a motion asking the city to "create a unit within the Police Department for the purpose of ascertaining and making known the witting and unwitting adherents of the communist cause."

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: City Council Downs Order To Police Red 'Adherents' | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

In point of fact, Arthur Summerfield's antismut cause is a good one; the mailing of pornography, especially to school-age youngsters, has become a serious problem. But by seeing smut where none existed, Summerfield had once more become an unwitting promotion man for professional publicists. Sighed a Summerfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Naked Maja | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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