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...ministers, like ministers elsewhere in the U.S., had been successful in building up their church memberships to new highs (103,224,954 nationwide). But no one knew whether this new strength could be translated into Christian action when it might be most needed and most uncomfortable. Crisis-torn Little Rock, thought Bishop Brown, might well be the turning point. Said he: "The church feels itself in a paradoxical position. It stands in judgment on whatever is amiss in the temper of the society which surrounds it, and then, having exercised the ministry of judgment, it must exercise the ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: RELIGION IN ACTION | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Along Manhattan's Bowery last week, sad-eyed, dirt-dappled bums lazed in the sun that reaches their curbs and benches now that the Third Avenue elevated has been torn down. Along San Francisco's Mission Street, the "lumbermen"-beggars on crutches-whined for nickels and dimes, counted up daily takes that often reached $45. Along Chicago's West Madison Street "20% California muscatel" sold briskly at 40? a pint to "winos," while around Baltimore's Market Place the "smokehounds" with red-stained hands laboriously strained alcohol through handkerchiefs from the wax in cans of Sterno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Hallelujah Time for Bums | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...Last Bridge. Europe's high-powered Maria Schell, as a German doctor torn between Hitler's legions, to which she belongs, and Tito's partisans, who impress her into their service (TIME, Sept. 2). Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's hilarious spoof of Manhattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock, Jayne Mansfield as herself (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...Little Picture." Murrow's zest for chasing fire engines on a global scale sometimes forces him to commute across oceans to keep his weekly date on Person to Person. By the time the show's technicians have torn their five tons of equipment out of a visited celebrity's home, Murrow may be on a plane to Washington to lay the groundwork for a new See It Now or closeted in a projection room to edit film for one already in work. At the end of a routine day's conferring, writing, filming or reporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Is Murrow | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Last Bridge. Europe's high-powered Maria Schell. as a German doctor torn between Hitler's legions, to which she belongs, and Tito's partisans, who impress her into their service (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 30, 1957 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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