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For several years they have been a fixture of downtown Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in the old hard-coal country of northeastern Pennsylvania. They wear pins that say GET SMART, GET SAVED. Abstemious, straitlaced, pushy in their missionary piety, they work the streets, buttonholing teen-age passers-by with provocative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Where Are the Children? | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

They are members of the Forever Family, a youth-oriented evangelistic group. They say they espouse a return to a primitive "New Testament" brand of Christianity. With apparent success, they forbid drinking, drugs and premarital sex. Thus far, they may have made more enemies than converts. Their hard-driving proselytizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Where Are the Children? | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

Married. Joseph Papp, 54, theatrical impresario and producer of Hair, That Championship Season, Much Ado About Nothing and A Chorus Line; and Gail Merrifield, 40, great-great-granddaughter of Actor-Assassin John Wilkes Booth and director of play development at Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival; he for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 2, 1976 | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

B.C. is led by a trio of Boston-bred seniors who have been monopolizing the winter sports pages since they were about sixteen. Captain Bill Russell Collins, at 6 ft 10 in., is the backbone of the Eagle defense. He's joined by high school cohorts Will Morrison and Bobby...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Cagers Host Boston College In Search of First Triumph | 12/6/1975 | See Source »

Says Mary Benjamin, a noted autograph scholar and dealer: "The field is governed in great part by emotion, the feelings that collectors have toward the individuals who have written."Nonetheless, villains too have autograph appeal. Papers signed by John Wilkes Booth sell for around $1,000, ten times as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Signed in Gold | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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