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...surve got through. An official Board of Social ar Economic Relations was set up, to get in the field now dominated in the church t the unofficial, embarrassingly left-wir Methodist Federation for Social Actk (TIME, May 5). The delegates also askc that the federation remove the wor "Methodist" from its title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Smoothing the Bulges | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

Instead of doing a live TV drama just once and then forgetting about it, Broadway TV Theater repeats the same play on five consecutive nights over Manhattan's station WOR-TV. TV producers like the idea because it saves on sets, actors' salaries and programming. Actors like it because it gives them a chance to be seen night after night, just as in the theater, and eases the feverish pressures of TV acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: TV Repertory | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...radios" were crystal sets fashioned from bits of wire, smuggled crystals and makeshift diaphragms. Though primitive, the sets easily picked up broadcasts from a nearby transmitter tower of Manhattan's station WOR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Riot in the Big House | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

Egypt's ruling class, as stupid, selfish and corrupt as any in the wor,ld, is unconcerned. This summer, as in every summer, the rich fled screeching, scorching Cairo and were relaxing in cool Alexandria or, like their King, on the Riviera. When they return to Cairo later in the fall, their womenfolk diamond-studded and sheathed in Parisian gowns, they will take up life in a small world of their own, which moves between exclusive clubs, theaters and palaces. They own most of Egypt's land, pay ludicrously small taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Locomotive | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...building, going up just off Broadway in Manhattan, station WOR-TV this week sealed a lead-covered, radiation-proof copper box containing predictions by New York TV critics on the future .of television. The predictions, to be opened 100 years from this week, generally foresaw a rosy future for the medium. But the World-Telegram and Sun Critic Harriet Van Home took bitter exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dark (Screen) Future | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

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