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Televiewer Ackerman promptly blew his top at this novel use of Holy Writ. With William A. Chapman, founder of the World Home Bible League, he tore off telegrams to Godfrey and Lipton's: "Shameful, sacrilegious . . . intolerably obnoxious . . . loose disrespect . . . one of the lowest notes in television history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In the Soup | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Legal Mind. In California's Alcatraz, Convict Earl W. Taylor, who had filed some 80 writs trying to get out of prison, tried a new tack, filed a writ asking to be left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Negotiable. In Santa Rosa, Calif., sheriff's deputies, sent to John Blum's grocery to collect $300 in alimony, found only $75 in the till, quickly got the balance after showing Blum a writ ordering them to seize "any or all coffee owned or possessed by the defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...example, Eisenhower decided to soft-pedal Congress instead of forcing his program through. But by this decision he failed to represent the urban millions of the nation who, badly under-represented in Congress have traditionally looked to the President as their real representative. This failure is writ large across the many items of his own program labeled "unfinished business." Revision of the McCarran Immigration Act, for which scores of urban nationality groups had petitioned, and which the President had pledged, never came about. The promised Taft-Hartley amendments were lost somewhere in the White House political shuffle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ike's First Year | 1/12/1954 | See Source »

...effort to avoid the pitfalls of Biblical movies by balancing the saintly preaching of Dean Jagger (as Justus) and Michael Rennie (as Peter) with the muscular Christianity of Burton and Mature. There is a minimum of the sex and sadism that usually characterize Hollywood's explorations of Holy Writ. The CinemaScope screen is handsomely utilized for swordplay, torture chambers and a thundering chase sequence as well as for dramatic shots of the Way of the Cross and Christ's entrance into Jerusalem the week before the Crucifixion. Alfred Newman's music is especially effective in the Palm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1953 | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

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