Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded confusion of a fourth-floor Manhattan loft last week, a crew of 24 editors and writers shared the birth pangs of a new magazine. After putting to bed the first issue of Vision, a 25?^ news fortnightly printed entirely in Spanish, they rushed 67,000 copies by plane to 5,000 newsstands all over Latin America...
Latin America already has several local newsmagazines, but many attempts at bigger ventures have failed because the founders counted on below-the-border advertising which did not materialize. Vision's founder, 32-year-old Publisher William E. Barlow, formerly an advertising space salesman with TIME International, reasoned that U.S. companies with Latin American trade were the logical supporters of such a venture. He not only persuaded them to take ads, but to put up most of his $750,000 initial capital. As editor, Barlow hired Iowa-born, Spanish-speaking Edwin Stout, onetime assistant managing editor of Newsweek and Quick...
...even worse case of this indiscriminate satire occurs at the climax of the book, when Helena has a vision of where the Cross is hidden in Jerusalem. If the book and the story are to have any meaning, this should be a moving scene. But no. The Empress Helena, Salut Helena, is led to the Cross by an incense merchant who speaks like this: I'm in incense, see. There's no finer connection. All the leading shrines are on my book. They know I handle the right stuff. Buy it myself in Arabls, ship it myself. Besides, they...
...Bishops, 35 Cardinals. St. Anthony's vision, with the accumulated visions, insights and inspired beliefs of centuries of Roman Catholics, has built up a vast deposit of faith that this week became an official dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1946 Pope Pius XII sent a circular letter to all bishops, asking whether they thought the Assumption should now be defined as church dogma. The replies were mostly favorable...
There could be no doubt of King's faith in spiritualist guidance, the duchess insisted; he tried constantly to "see the vision." His only reason for keeping his spiritualist activities a secret was because "in his official capacity he couldn't allow it to be too well known...