The Sign Magazine
Contents 1947
Volume 26 January 1947 #6
McCormick and His Tribune... Walter Fitzmaurice
Poland and the Church... Ann Su Cardwell
Crusader in Greasepaint... Jerry Cotter
Turkey Faces the Slav Colossus... Vincent W. Hartnett
Basket-A-Minute Coach - A Sign Sports Story... Joseph Nolan
Found Guilty... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.
The Closed Shop - Should It Be Outlawed?
Yes... Godfrey P. Schmidt
No.... Martin C. Kyne
The Odyssey of Somebody's Can of Soup - A Sign Picture Story
Words and the Faith - A Short... J. G. Rothenberg
The Gray Shadow... John O'Connor
Beat of the Heart... Helmut Koenig
Our Lady of the Snow... Bruce Marshall
Peewee and the Heathen Baby... Abigail Quigley McCarthy
New Labor Laws... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-Daughter of the Queen... Bonaventure Griffiths, C.P.
-Martha's New Year Greeting - A Short - Francis Flaherty, C.P.
Personal Mention
"From Neglect of Thy Inspirations" - Poem... Sr. Mary of the Visitation
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Sign Post: Questions and Answers
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Categorica
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
Letters
Volume 26 February 1947 #7
The Reluctant Hero... Edward Duff, S.J.
Stalin's Fifth Columns... William Henry Chamberlin
PM: Journalism's Changeling... Leon Racht
Moment of Glory - A Sign Sports Story... Walter M. Langford
Cuckoo on Conveyor Belt... Liam McFadden
A Noisy Fish Story - A Short... Arthur C. Bromirski
Proxy Mothers - A Sign Picture Story
Should Industry-wide Bargaining be Abolished?
Yes... Walter B. Weisenburger
No... Walter P. Reuther
The Church Behind the Iron Curtain... Walter Dushnyk
Day of Decision... Hugh B. Cave
Princess of Washington Square... James Edwin Hewelcke
The Money Belt... Will S. Bird
Let's Stay Strong... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Currrent Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-China and the American Way... Francis Flaherty, C.P.
Personal Mention
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Sign Post: Questions and Answers
Categorica
Candlemas - Poem... John D. Boyd, S.J.
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
There is a Hearth - Poem... Sr. Mary Ada, C.S.J.
Letters
Volume 26 March 1947 #8
The Wagner Act - A Reappraisal... Sen. Robert F. Wagner
A Look at Canada... Richard S. Pattee
Taxpayers' Headache... John C. O'Brien
"Citizen Saint" - A Sign Picture Story
"Father Forgive"... Alfred Duffy, C.P.
Perforce Unmarried... Louise Edna Goeden
Horatio Alger Hero of Journalism... Robert Jean
Should Germany Have a Centralized Government?
Yes... George N. Shuster
No... Ross Hoffman
They Are People... Fabian Flynn, C.P.
Tiny Tornado - A Sign Sports Story... Oscar Fraley
The Way to the Heart... Vincent W. Hartnett
The Kid Brother... Joe Dever
Mrs. O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady... Martha McCarthy
An Important Announcement to our Subscribers... Ralph Gorman,C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-Let 'Er Buck... Wendelin Moore, C.P.
Personal Mention
Sign Post: Questions and Answers
Lift Up Thy Head - Poem... Sister de Paul, O.S.F.
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Categorica
Hodie Si Vocem Audieritis - Poem... Sister Agnes, C.S.J.
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
Letters
Volume 26 April 1947 #9
There Are No People in Russia... George Moorad
Mother Was a Brave Woman... Stephen R. Fogarty, O.S.A.
Dress Rehearsal for Tragedy... Michael de la Bedoyere
Ecuadorean Contrasts - A Sign Picture Story
The Capital's Newspapers... John C. O'Brien
Compulsory Health Insurance?
Affirmative... James E. Murray
Negative... Robert A. Taft
Industry's Aristocrats... George A. Kelly
Yankee Skipper - A Sign Sports Story... Oscar Fraley
This Day Thou Shalt Be With Me... Alfred Duffy, C.P.
So Might I Miss... John J. Ryan
Homeward Bound... Ted Le Berthon
They Have Their Secrets... Maura Laverty
Our New Role... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-My Faithful Servant... Raphael Vance, C.P.
Personal Mention
Categorica
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Sign Post: Questions and Answers
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
Letters
Volume 26 May 1947 #10
Old Pledges and New Plans... Hallett Abend
Baseball's Hobby Lobby - A Sign Sports Story... Dick J. Stedler
Toward a New Foreign Policy... John C. O'Brien
"America's Greatest Newspaper"... Charles J. McGill
Just What the Doctor Ordered... Dorothy Park Clark
Should the Communist Party be Outlawed?
Affirmative... Col. John Thomas Taylor
Negative... William Henry Chamberlin
Blunt Moralist... John J. Barry
Bargain in Brimstone... Fulton Oursler
Twofold Gentlemen - A Sign Picture Story
"Woman, Behold Thy Son"... Alfred Duffy, C.P.
Polack is a Mean Word... Peter Marie Hines
The May Basket... Robert Cormier
Sister Toodles... Jill O'Nan
Inhuman Bondage... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-All Things to All Men... Bonaventure Griffiths, C.P.
-China Calls... A Sister of St. Joseph
Personal Mention
Sign Post: Questions and Answers
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Tolerance - Poem... Nadina Darroch
Favor for a Child - Poem... Lois Slade
Categorica
My Confessor's Hand - Poem... John J. Gallagher
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
Letters
Volume 26 June 1947 #11
Choose Your Partner... Loucille Dowd Giles
Which Way is Europe Drifting?... N. S. Timasheff
Chimney Snow - A Short... Arthur C. Bromirski
Circus Chaplain... Bob Ensworth
Compulsory Military Training?
Affirmative... Hugh A. Drum
Negative... Thomas M. Mahony
How To Make a Convert Singlehanded... Lucile Hasley
The High-Brow Herald Tribune... Paul F. Healy
Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?... Alfred Duffy, C.P.
Tia Bates... Thomas Kernan
Weather Girls - A Sign Picture Story
Good-By, Katie... Hugh B. Cave
The Rules Are Clear... Val Gendron
This Dog Is Mine... Robert Patterson Young
Peace Without Russia... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-Home Is Where the Heart Is... William Westhoven, C.P.
-The Dragon's Tail... Bonaventure Griffiths, C.P.
Personal Mention
Quatrain to Greece - Poem... Clifford Laube
Sign Post: Questions and Answers
Categorica
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
Letters
Volume 26 July 1947 #12
Good Neighbors - Misunderstood... Francis Greene
South Pole Padre... William J. Menster
Which Way America?... John F. Cronin, S.S.
First Lady... William H. Smullen
Quaker City Journalism... Art Smith
No More Demerits for Demaret - A Sign Sports Story... Oscar Raley
"I Thirst"... Alfred Duffy, C.P.
Light for the Blind... Jean Lawrie Holzhauer
Czarist Exiles... George Moorad
A-Bomb's Guardian - A Sign Picture Story
Hollywood Breakdown... Ted LeBerthon
His Kind of Girl... John M. Curry
The Spotted Horse... Lovel Rose
France's Trojan Horse... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-Retreat and Jubilee... Wendelin Moore, C.P.
Personal Mention
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Categorica
Children's Mass - Poem... Frances M. Miller
Apple Blossoms of the Marines - Poem... Naomi Gilpatrick
Prayer for a Son - Poem... Louis Hasley
Sign Post: Questions and Answers
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
Letters
Volume 27 August 1947 #1
The Vatican and Peace, 1947... Camille M. Cianfarra
First Lady of Tabloids... William R. Conklin
Students' Dilemma... Clarence M. Zens
Our Stak in Germany... William Henry Chamberlin
Muller-ury: Portraitist... Jerry Cotter
Experiment in Good Will... Francis Howard
Germany's Children - A Sign Picture Story
"It is Finished"... Alfred Duffy, C.P.
Letter from London... Helen Walker Homan
Ladies in Waiting - A Sign Sports Story... Oscar Fraley
The Infernal Gilhooley Credenza... James C. G. Conniff
Come Back to Me... Peirson Ricks
An Old Man by the Window... John-Holmes Coleman
Marshall or Molotov?... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-A Missionary Muses... William Westhoven, C.P.
Personal Mention
Sign Post: Questions and Answers
Categorica
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
Letters
Volume 27 September 1947 #2
No Flowers, Please!... Andrew Boyle
Now It's The Parents We Spank... Helen M. McCadden
The Crusading Post-Dispatch... Paul Tredway and Harry Wilson
Dear Old Dad... Paul Eiden
"Into Thy Hands"... Alfred Duffy, C.P.
Smugglers, Beware! - A Sign Picture Story
"It's Fun To Get Drunk!"... Alban Carroll, C.P.
Battling Gus - A Sign Sports Story
Guaranteed Annual Wage?
Affirmative... Harry C. Read
Negative... Emerson Schmidt
All the Answers... Hugh B. Cave
Color Scheme... Robert Cormier
Our Lady's Gargoyle... Robert C. Broderick
A Disturbing Parallel... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-Valiant Women... Wendelin Moore, C.P.
Personal Mention
A Time for Memorizing Splendor - Poem... Sr. M. Bernetta
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Sign Post: Questions and Answers
The Call - Poem... Brother Rudolph, C.F.X.
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Categorica
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
Letters
Volume 27 October 1947 #3
Too Many People... C. J. Enzler
The Marshall Plan Is Not Enough... The Observer
For Twenty Cents... John C. Cort
Victory Over Injury - A Sign Sports Story... Pat McDonough
Beating the Housing Shortage... Walter John Marx
Taking the Earth's Pulse - A Sign Picture Story
My Hair Falls For the Experts... Daniel Lord, S.J.
The Bleeding Stones of Fountains Abbey... Louise M. Saatman
Christopher Lynch from Limerick... Jerry Cotter
Goose Grease and Red Pepper... Grover Ables
The Passing of Delia Hanrahan... Martha McCarthy
Sooner... Jesse Stuart
Babes in Toyland... Harold I. Givens
A Silver Jubilee... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-Mission Supplement
Letters
Personal Mention
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Kindergarten - Poem... Sister Agnes, C.S.J.
Bittersweet - Poem... Glenn Ward Dresbach
Sign Post: Questions and Answers
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
Volume 27 November 1947 #4
The American Scene
Drama in the Newsreels... John B. Kennedy
Newsweek Marches On... Art Smith
Crisis in Italy... Barrett McGurn
Whither Russia?... David J. Dallin
Heaven - and Mr. Bevin... Helen Walker Homan
Why I Became a Catholic... Gretta Palmer
To Each His Own... Lucile Hasley
Rehersal for Calvary... Norbert Herman, C.P.
Pedro Manana's Candle... Tamara Andreeva
Love in Minneapolis... Richard Sherman
These and Variations... Vincent W. Hartnett
More - and Better... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-Just a Letter... Cyprian Leonard, C.P.
-Our Lady in China... Sr. M. Kathleen Boyle, S.S.J.
Sports... Don Dunphy
Radio... Dorothy Klok
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Books
Fiction in Focus... John S. Kennedy
Letters
People
Henry Walpole (Poem)... Sister M. Bernetta
Mercy and Men... Walter Farrell, O.P.
Spartan of Sparta (A Sign Picture Story)
Sign Post
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
'Twill Please Again
Volume 27 December 1947 #5
The High Cost of Peace... John C. O'Brien
Give Them Light... William A. Taylor
Men With a Mission... Gerard Sloyan
England's Irishman... Helen Walker Homan
"And Many, Many Telephones"... H. Leonard Valway
Why I Became A Catholic (Part II)... Gretta Palmer
Happy Match Birthday... Art Bromirski
A Birth to Remember... Norbert Herman, C.P.
What About Alice?... John J. MacDonald
Bella Fleace Gave A Party... Evelyn Waugh
Come to Me This Night... Russell Gordon Carter
The Tenderness... Robert Cormier
De Gaulle, Dictator?... Ralph Gorman, C.P.
Current Fact and Comment
The Passionists in China:
-China Vignettes... Bonaventure Griffiths, C.P.
Sports... Don Dunphy
Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter
Radio... Dorothy Klock
Books
Fiction in Focus...John S. Kennedy
Christmas and Children's Books... Anne Thaxter Eaton
Letters
Christmas Rush... Walter Farrell, O.P.
Sign Post
People
Prayer to St. Agnes (Poem)... Sr. Helen Dolores, C.S.J.
'Twill Please Again
Letter to a Bride (Poem)... Jessica Powers
Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton
Ireland Faces Winter (A Sign Picture Story)