Word: versions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...version was sharper: "to create facts, to confront the world with these facts, and to build on their foundation...
...usual, Considine faced a deadline that would have daunted a less workmanlike writer. The first of his 28, "as told to" articles (average length: 1,800 words) would go to press next week, just a month after he took on the job. As usual, Considine's first version would be the last...
...Luther Weigle was elected president of the Federal Council of Churches, which he shepherded through the first two years of the war. His biggest extracurricular job has been as chairman of the committee at work revising the Standard Version of the Bible. Since 1930, headquarters for this ambitious project by U.S. and British scholars have been at Yale. After his retirement, Chairman Weigle expects to devote his full time to the committee, which completed the New Testament in 1946 (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), and hopes to finish...
...Dear to My Heart (Walt Disney; RKO Radio), a sugary version of Sterling North's novel about an Indiana backwoods boyhood, is short on realism but long on entertainment. Jeremiah (Bobby Driscoll) and his little black lamb are good for a few laughs and tears, but the story is mainly useful as an excuse for Burl Ives's ballads and Walt Disney's cartoons...
Author Zilahy (rhymes with feel a knee) is the author of nine previous novels and 19 plays which have made him popular at home and in Spain and Italy as well. The Dukays is his version of the decline of the West, from the turn of the last century to World War II; it follows the decaying lives of members of an aristocratic Hungarian family. Like many ostensibly moral stories, The Dukays' chief feature is not so much its somber conclusion in the inferno as its spicy descriptions of how the characters get there...