Word: one
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eastern readers, it will be their first look at a comic book; for many, it will be their first look at a book. By printing the books on heavy paper instead of newsprint, the U.S. expects them to last until upwards of 50 people have thumbed through each one...
Picture-packed Nation's Heritage was the heaviest (7 lbs.) and most expensive ($30 a copy) magazine on the market. It was also one of the least popular; only 3,000 copies of the bimonthly current (and sixth) issue were printed. Last week 30-year-old Publisher Malcolm Forbes, son of Forbes magazine's B. C. Forbes, announced that Heritage had died, leaving no heirs...
...sound of the bells was a more than abstract symbol of the army's obedience to Christ's command. Only a few avowed Christians have tried to follow one of Christ's injunctions so literally. On the Mount of Olives, the Savior had preached: "I was a stranger, and ye took me in ... naked, and ye clothed me ... In prison, and ye came unto me . . . Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto...
...slums, in small, crowded buildings marked by neon-lighted crosses in the midst of dark Skid Rows. The army regards such positions as its most important beachheads in the Devil's territory. Captains Olive McKeown and Luella Larder, of the army's Greater New York division, command one such corps (church) at 349 Bowery. One night last week, as they had hundreds of other times, they gathered to their fold some 200 men-refugees from the saloons attracted by amplified phonograph music, drawn by hunger, curiosity or loneliness to McKeown and Larder's service...
...been one of them. He knew the angles. Said he: "The Devil will come and bring you another bottle of smoke. You'll go over to Second Avenue and sell a pint of blood for five bucks and get drunk again before the day is over . . . Come and get God's help...