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...Million Sympathizers? Tomio Muto's whirl through Indiana is part of a three-month campaign in the U.S. to organize a 40-man team for next summer's work in Japan and to raise some $50,000 to pay for it. "During the occupation," he tells his audiences, "there was an abnormal Christianity boom. The Japanese are adaptable and wanted to flatter the Americans, so many pretended to become Christians. They would have their weddings in churches. But the real test was baptism. Few would do it because it was a cultural break with ancestors, and sometimes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Evangelism Is War | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...game might go on and on. Francis Henry Taylor's resignation from Manhattan's Metropolitan (TIME, Dec. 27) still leaves the U.S. museum world's throne unfilled. Last week the merry-go-round got another powerful whirl. Director Fiske Kimball announced his retirement from the Philadelphia Museum. For the time being Henri Marceau, the Philadelphia's associate director, has moved in as acting director. But all over the country museum directors were up on their toes, listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Musical Chairs | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

With The Inspector Calls is a gay and roguish comedy, Always a Bride. Besides being very funny, with some wonderful character sketches, this is a fine recruiting film for the confidence game, representing the crooks engaged in it as particularly enchanting, and the life itself no mean whirl of the most sumptuous luxuries that the Riviera can offer, including the Monte Carlo jail with its beautiful sea-view and famous chef...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Inspector Calls | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Energy, in fact, is the essence of this picture; the audience is not merely stimulated, it is all but electrocuted. Even the huge CinemaScope screen seems hardly big enough to carry the mass scenes. And yet, through the pelt of colors and the whirl of action, Carmen herself holds the eye-like a match burning steadily in a tornado. Actress Dandridge employs to perfection the method of the coquette: by never giving more than she has to, she hints that she has more than she has given-and sometimes even more than she really has to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

HELICOPTER SERVICE between airports and cities in Europe is spreading rapidly. Since Sabena has made a hit with its service in Brussels, British European Airways will start a service in London, using Sikorsky S 53 helicopters to whirl six passengers from London Airport to midcity in 22 minutes instead of the 70 it takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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