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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What happens to China's 450 million infidels when they die?" eight-year-old William McCarthy asked the Campbellite circuit-rider. "Son," answered the preacher, "they all go straight to hell." Then & there Ohio-born William McCarthy decided that there was no God. Last week, at 83, white-haired Atheist McCarthy, still of the same mind, was hard at work fighting religion in the New Jersey superior court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secularists at Work | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Judge Davidson took the case under advisement as the United Secularists settled themselves down for a long climb up the legal ladder to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last-week scrappy Octogenarian McCarthy's white frame house in Clifton, N.J. was piled high with broadsides, and almost every evening embattled Secularists were coming in to help mail out a special appeal for funds. Said McCarthy happily: "Nobody gets paid for this, you understand. We're all charity workers here-and we're giving the Lord hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secularists at Work | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Three such "Model T" air bursts, said the AEC, would tear the guts out of Washington. A perfect three-bomb pattern would pinpoint the Capitol, the downtown-White House district and the brass-heavy Pentagon across the Potomac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Naked City | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...building, a solid modern structure with four thick concrete floors, would be completely wrecked, and 80% of the people in the building would be immediate blast casualties; others would die later from radiation. Windows and partitions would be hurled about as missiles. More fragile buildings like the White House would be crushed like cardboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Naked City | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Died. John T. Dooling, 78, white-topped power in Tammany Hall during its heyday, for 40 years legal adviser to Tammany's candidates (including Governor Alfred E. Smith and Mayor James J. Walker); in White Plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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