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Dates: during 1940-1949
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*Commenting on the sudden death of a comrade who was running to catch a train, Railton once wrote: "Today's great news to me has been that of Major Elmslie's glorious rush up the railway steps into heaven."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Officers' pay ranges from $10 a week to the "about $70" a week paid to Commissioner Pugmire. The Salvationist owns few worldly goods, no home, no furniture. What he needs, beyond food and clothes, is provided for him. He is ready to pick up in an instant and fly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

A shy man whose talents lay in administrative work, Ernest Pugmire was quite unlike his fiery evangelist father. As an administrator he advanced through the army's staff ranks, by 1942 had become a commissioner and boss of the army's Eastern Territory. Four years later he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Peering through grillwork gates, over garden walls and from doors, windows and moving dollies, three television cameras probed last week into the anguished doings at the great house at Thornfield in Studio One's dramatization of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Not all of Studio One'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Polish | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

As for dramatic quality, Miner admits that it's mostly a matter of guesswork: "Plays considered surefire ahead of broadcasting time usually end up at the bottom-that happened to comedies like June Moon and Boy Meets Girl. But Turgenev's Smoke, which was expected to leave people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Polish | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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