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...time wore on, they saw him less & less. A devout party-liner with a fierce feeling for the country of his birth, he was a wartime supporter of Tito, and when Tito broke with the Kremlin, Adamic broke too. He campaigned briefly for Henry Wallace in the 1948 campaign, then plunged back into his writing with the single-minded purposefulness of a dedicated man. Finally, he became a virtual recluse: his neighbors rarely saw him. Last year, the neighbors discovered that Adamic and his wife had simply vanished-their house was standing with locked doors and drawn shades amid...
Back in Chicago, devout Professor Young, who goes to Mass daily, wound up his summer school teaching and settled back to wait for word from Italy. Said he quietly: "I have been feeling quite old in the last few weeks...
Rancher Joe Evans got his religion in an American frontier home where a Bible and a rifle were the two indispensable items of furniture. His rancher father and his mother were devout Baptists, and father fought his share of Indians. In 1890, when Joe was nine, his parents helped found a series of outdoor camp meetings which are still held in West Texas. Joe watched hell-raising Jeff Davis County become law-abiding to the point where the grand jury, eleven years running, could find nobody to indict...
Isle of Sinners. A stirring French movie (original title: God Needs Men), with Pierre Fresnay as a devout fisherman whose fellow islanders prod him into the sacrilege of serving as their priest (TIME, April...
Isle of Sinners. A stirring French movie (original title: God Needs Men), with Pierre Fresnay as a devout fisherman whose fellow islanders prod him into the sacrilege of serving as their priest (TIME, April...