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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 »

Iron clad safety devices such as circuit breakers which automatically go on when a laboratory technician approaches apparatus are impractical in work where adjustments on the equipment must be made all the time, he explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electrocuted Engineering Student Broke Safety Rule | 11/22/1949 | See Source »

...Editor Michael Foot of the weekly Tribune (whose pretty, 34-year-old bride is an independent film producer) thought the government should "use the opportunity presented by the spectacle of the rocking Rank empire to go into the film business itself." Foot wants to establish a state theater circuit and a national motion picture company to finance independent producers and distribute their films. But his idea got scant support. The government has not done very well with its venture into the movie business so far. It had set up the National Film Finance Corp., with capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocking Empire | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Wheel (United Artists) is a racing-car movie, and its cyclonic energy and pace are likely to leave audiences with dust in their eyes. As a chesty, first-year driver, Mickey Rooney burns up the racing circuit from Culver City to Indianapolis. Gripping the steering wheel with a fearful, downward thrust as though trying to keep the car on the ground, he never drives a dull race. He always wins, crashes, hurtles the wall, or narrowly misses burning to death. The movie falls short of the 1932 speedway saga called The Crowd Roars. But obstreperous acting, grease-textured photography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Last week the three judges of the U.S. tenth circuit court of appeals at Omaha unanimously turned down Dr. Warren's appeal, ruled that if the U.S. Congress has the power to raise armies-which it does-it also has "power to say who shall serve in them and in what way . . . The constitutional guaranties of personal liberty are not always absolutes . . . [Dr. Warren violated the law] under his asserted philosophy that he had a right to disobey a Federal law which he believed to be detrimental to mankind. A person may not decide to himself whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Obey or Pay | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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