Word: ruralization
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Current fashion in zoo-building is to put animal comfort first, make everything look as unzooish as possible. Like rural Whipsnade in England (TIME, June 18), Chicago's zoo goes easy on fences. Visitors will tingle at the sight of lions, elephants and bears padding in the open over imitation rock (cement sprayed on steel laths), but they will be safe behind invisible moats 12½ ft. deep & wide...
...four-year study of church attendance. In 1,000 Congregational churches, said he, pews were 70% vacant. Only 42% of the communicants supported their churches by attendance or otherwise. Attendance varies inversely with the size of communities, the urban Eastern States averaging the lowest (36%) and the rural Southeastern States the highest...
...Juan-les-Pins, soft, squashy, exquisite Baron Maurice de Rothschild is generally on hand to pass on their face and form. The women call him "Momo" and his pajamas are a sight to rival theirs. In France he used to be regularly elected Deputy because he bought his rural constituents so many free drinks and livestock. That scandal won him the distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated for bribery by his legislative peers. Later he was discreetly elected Senator. Lately he reached the U. S. from Asia on a tour around the world. Paris chuckled...
...celebrating mass on railroad sidings for all who cared to come. Then he would travel with his Pullman chapel through New England. All this was to publicize, and raise money for, his missionary work in North Carolina. Many a Protestant minister travels about the land carrying the Gospel to rural districts by car and truck. But ST. PETER, and its mate ST. PAUL which is currently on show at the World's Fair in Chicago, are the only two chapel cars in all U. S. railroading. Descendant of ST. ANTHONY which was in use 25 years ago, ST. PETER...
...companion picture to the rompings of Fields, a story of rural farm life in Maine is a pleasant counterpart. "As The Earth Turns" features no distinguished actors or actresses but those taking the roles are convincing and well cast. Heroine of the film is Jean Muir whose pleasant optimism and charming personality give the picture a realistic touch. The story concerns the everyday life of farmers, their hopes, fears, and monotonous routine. The intricate situations brought about by having members of one family living in close proximity to one another are portrayed adequately and with some skill. Although the film...