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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)