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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside Looking In. On the right wing of U.S. Protestantism, the Fundamentalist American Council of Churches is the farthest tip. Most of its light and heat emanate from its dynamic founder, strapping Carl McIntire. Born 43 years ago in Ypsilanti, Mich., Carl McIntire became a minister in the Northern Presbyterian church. But his violent accusations of "modernism" and corruption against the leadership of his church soon earned him a painful formal expulsion from the Presbyterian fold. Ever since then, Carl McIntire has been on the outside looking in-and not liking much of what he sees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fundamental Fundamentalist | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...James G. ("Rum, Romanism and Rebellion") Elaine. She lives in a cavernous house on East Erie Street, is rarely seen in Chicago society, but gives occasional decorous parties, such as her dinner two weeks ago for 70 guests, including Henry Wallace and his junketing party of European left-wing politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Angel in the Wings | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Nine years later, old Professor Shafer published a sprightly brief of his findings : The Ways of a Mud Dauber (Stanford University Press; $2.50), a slender (74 pp.) book telling what he learned about Sceliphron cementarium during several happy summers. The volume is dedicated to a crippled mud dauber, "Crumple-Wing," of which Shafer was especially fond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life Among the Mud Daubers | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Tidy Habits. From Crumple-Wing and her kin, Shafer learned some inside details of the mud dauber's life cycle. One of the most striking was the insect's built-in sanitary facilities. Each egg is laid in a separate mud cell, along with perhaps a dozen spiders which have been paralyzed by the mother wasp's sting. After the larva hatches from the egg, it begins to eat the spiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life Among the Mud Daubers | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...seemed to be thoroughly outclassed throughout the game. Their attack depended on a set on only average forwards and a better than average wing three-quarter, but these weapons were hardly enough to hold off the Rugby club. John Carey's forward play was picked as the outstanding feature of the Harvard attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Slaughter MIT As Tennis Team Falls, 9-0 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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