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The Sign Magazine

Contents 1953


Volume 32                  January 1953             #6



When America Changes Presidents... John C. O'Brien

TV's Ace in the Hole... Arthur F. Lenehan

Purgatory on a Witness Stand... Louis F. Budenz

Old St. Mary's Churchyard... John F. Boyle

The Steam that Heats New York... James C. G. Conniff

Israel - a Kingdom Divided... Leonard J. Schweitzer

They Sing for Peace (A Sign Picture Story)

France's Common Man... Staff of "The Observer"

You Said It, Mr. Shakespeare... Doyle Hennessy

Alocholism - Disease or Vice?... Milton Lomask

Only Through This Door (A Sign Picture Story)

Suffer Little Children... Robert L. Reynolds

For Better - For Worse... Jean Harnett

Fighting Sculptor... George A. Cevasco

The Scourging... Jude Mead, C.P.

Such Bright Ideas... Leslie Gordon Barnard

The Fortune Hunter... Hugh B. Cave

The Final Tears... Paul Annixter

Eisenhower and Our Allies... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Sports... Don Dunphy

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

The Visit to St. Elizabeth... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

And So a Son - Poem... James C. G. Conniff

Heart of Christ - Poem... Sister Helen Dolores, C. S. J.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

The Dove - Poem... Berniece Bunn Christman

Fire - Poem... Sister Mary of the Visitation

Books





Volume 32                  February 1953            #7



Washington's Split Personality... Ruth Hume

Music in the White House... Paul Hume

Listen to An Incredible Story... Jim Bishop

Ellis Island's Young Immigrants (A Sign Picture Story)

Danger Signals in the Middle East... Robert Meyer

Jim Crow Draws Blood... John Laurence

Our Information Outpost in Italy... John E. Dineen

Count Your Blessings... Bob Crean

The Chicopee Reel... Joseph O'Connor

The Crowning... Jude Mead, C.P.

Gathering at the River... Lucile Hasley

The Sign from Tree to You (A Sign Picture Story)

The Lovely Fact of Labor... E. Boyd Barrett

Seminary Hill... Myles Connolly

Helping Hand... Charles Carver

Democracy for Whom?... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Sports... Don Dunphy

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

People

The Older Singers Answer - Poem... Earl Byrd

The Birth of Our Lord... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Retaliation - Poem... Sr. Philomena Mary S.N.J.M.

Books





Volume 32                  March 1953               #8



Meany: AFL's New Chief... John Cort

Canada: Big Middle Power... Anthony J. Wright

Our Frustrated Vice-Presidents... John C. O'Brien

The New Red Purge... James V. Parker

Vagaries of French Government... Bertrand de Jouvenal

A Busy Man's Birthday (A Sign Picture Story)

The Ninth Hour... David Vincent Sheehan

Winter Night... Dorothy Dalton Clarke

And Baby Makes Seven... Ed Mack Miller

The Synagogue Finds the Seminary... Helen Walker Homan

So You Want to Adopt a Child (A Sign Picture Story)

The Carrying of the Cross... Jude Mead, C.P.

St. Patrick's Day in the Morning... Doran Hurley

Red Petticoat... Bryan MacMahon

First Son... Dorothy Tooker

And Now the Jews!... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Sports... Don Dunphy

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

People

Patron of the Dying - Poem... Margaret Devereaux Conway

Green Legions - Poem... Desmond Lonergan

Jesus Presented in the Temple... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Consummation - Poem... Kathryn Cronin

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, O.P.

Books





Volume 32                  April 1953               #9



We Can Be Atom-Bombed... Jim Bishop

The Reds Cry Wolf... Victor Riesel

A New Labor Law... John F. Cronin, S.C.

Spain - Our Jilted Ally... Stanton Griffis

Mr. Europe's Revolution... Andrew Boyle

English Catholics on the March... Edmund Campion

Experiment in Understanding... Ed Cony

Doubting Thomas... Neil Kevin

The Crucifixion... Jude Mead, C.P.

Holy Week on Molokai... Brother Engelbert, SS.CC.

The New Easter Vigil (A Sign Picture Story)

Easter in "Little Poland" (A Sign Picture Story)

Lilacs Are Better... Monica Krawczyk

The Pigeon from St. Bartholomew's... Myles Connolly

A Look at the Record... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Sports... Don Dunphy

A Look at the World... Anita Colby

The Finding of the Child in the Temple... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

People

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Books

Letters





Volume 32                  May 1953                 #10



Montana's Senator Mike... William M. Healy

Me for Main Street... Art Smith

They Give You the Right Time (A Sign Picture Study)

The Reds See a Good Thing in Finland (A Sign Picture Story)

The Church Down Under... James G. Murtagh

France Has Her Fingers Crossed... Countess Waldeck

What Do You Ask, My Daughter?... Mother M. Eleanor

Your First Girl... Jim Bishop

TV's Temperamental Character... John Lester

A Chance for Ex-Convicts... Ed Cony

Lawyers Also Mend Marriages... Francis D. O'Mara

Away With Him!... Rupert Langenstein, C.P.

Remembrance of Helen... Cecile M. Roach

The Yankee Gesture... William Arthur Breyfogle

Dogwood for Alison... Frank P. Jay

The Last Date... Charles Carver

The Parlor Game of Genocide... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Carolina Jubilee (Picture Story)

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Sports... Don Dunphy

Radio and Television... John Lester

A Look at the World... Anita Colby

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C. P.

The Agony in the Garden... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Books

Letters





Volume 32                  June 1953                #11



Hollywood's Nice Girl... Jerry Cotter

Our Teen-age Drinkers... Milton Lomask

Good Old Big City... Harry Schlegel

The Anointing of the Queen... Andrew Boyle

16th Century Housing Project (A Sign Picture Story)

Brightest Star in the Flag... John E. Dineen

A Catholic Looks at UNESCO... Alba Zizzamia

Take Up the Cross... Paschal Drew, C.P.

Fathers are V.I.P.'s... Robert Odenwald, M.D.

Communist Crazy Quilt... Albert D. Sears

Romance in the Spring (A Sign Picture Story)

The Magic Palace... Frank Bennett

Marriages are Made... Leslie Gordon Barnard

The Big Man... Patrick S. Traynor

Athe News: Cloak and Dagger Style... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

The Bishop Gets Out of Jail

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Sports... Don Dunphy

Letters

The Grimy Towns - Poem... Clifford J. Laube

People

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Commencement - Poem... Patricia MacGill

The Gardener - Poem... Herbert A. Kenny

The Scourging... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Tall on the Cross - Poem... Louise Juarez

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

A Look at the World... Anita Colby

Books





Volume 32                  July 1953                #12



Little Miss Dynamo... Peggy Cotter

North of the Border... Anthony J. Wright

St. Ann of Scranton (A Sign Picture Story)

Iron Curtain Seminary... Bernard Quinn

Allah Brings Happiness (A Sign Picture Story)

The Sign of Friendship... Malachy MCGill, C.P.

The Name is Susan... Lucile Hasley

Do if for Mom, Patty... Jane Sprenger

Quiet, Please!... Frank Remington

It's Easy to Write Every Day... Russell Hall Davison

Davvy... Mildred Lynn Greenwald

The Miracle... Bruce Marshall

Reach for an Angel... Margaret E. Barnard

Editor's Report... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Sports... Don Dunphy

Letters

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

As Many As Are Here Present - Poem... Burnham Eaton

Be Still and Know - Poem... Anobel Armour

The Crowning With Thorns... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Hollywoodo Pan-Dowdy... Anita Colby

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

Books





Volume 33                 August 1953              #1



Airport Chapel (A Sign Picture Story)

A Prayerful President... John C. O'Brien

Dynamic Redhead... John Cort

Angels on Wheels... Ken Yarber and Jim Smiley

David and Red Goliath... Bernard S. Redmont

Germany's Hour of Decision... Leonard J. Schweitzer

Where Spanish Padres Pioneered (A Sign Picture Story)

The Convicts' Friend... Milton Lomask

The Big Houses of Yesterday... Mary Catherine Wallon

Johnny Masculine's Last Mile... Frank Scully

Poor Bandaged Children of Eve... Sister Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P.

The Cat and the Cornfield... Bryan MacMahon

My Father's Ears... Maxine Wood

The Murderer... Leslie Gordon Barnard

The Missing Liberals... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Sports... Don Dunphy

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

You and Buck Rogers... Anita Colby

The Carrying of the Cross... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Temptation - Poem... Sister Mary Estelle, O.P.

Harvest Home - Poem... Sarah Wingate Taylor

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

Books

Letters





Volume 33                 September 1953           #2



Three-Star Family... J. C. Maguire

Behind Seminary Walls (A Sign Picture Story)

The Old Mill Stream (A Sign Picture Story)

Bishop's Director... Rod Odell

Switzerland Goes It Alone... Robert Parker

Assignment in Hong Kong (A Sign Picture Story)... Elsa Chaney

Master Plan for Peace in Asia... John Gerrity

The Passion of Mary... Boniface Buckley, C.P.

The Pact... Will Oursler

The Housewife... Edward A. Connell

The Importance of English... Paul Hume

Husbands Are Married, Too... George H. Weldon

Last Haircut... Louis Hasley

Yours Truly... Robert Greenwald

Outlandish Strain... Florence B. Jacobs

Back-Seat Drivers... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Sports... Don Dunphy

Letters

The Crucifixion... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Shadows - Poem... Theodore Maynard

Wonderful Clown... Anita Colby

For a Child of God - Poem... Jessica Powers

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

Books





Volume 33                 October 1953             #3



Young Labor Organizer (A Sign Picture Story)

He Bats for Little League... Arthur Mulligan

Eisenhower's Right-hand Man... Edwin A. Lahey

Christ in Washington Square... Cecilia Maguire

Freedom's Friend in Asia... John Gerrity

North American College... George Salerno

Back to School of Top NATO Bosses (A Sign Picture Story)

Bevan Doesn't Like Uncle Sam... J. K. Adair

Giant Goes to God... Andrew Boyle

The Admirable Mlle. Jaricot... Countess Waldeck

Angels Don't Have Bones... Carmen Lund

Handicapped Workers Are Good Business... Joseph M. Kelly

Casey Up...to Date... Matt O'Brien

Pere Martin's Navy... Michael J. O'Connor

The Pumpkin on the Vine... Frank P. Jay

Too Many Japanese?... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Sports... Don Dunphy

Letters

One Lump or Two?... Anita Colby

The Resurrection... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

Books





Volume 33                 November 1953            #4



A Day in the Life of a Cardinal... Jim Bishop

Labor, the Crucified Crusade... Victor Riesel

CYO in Action (A Sign Picture Story)

Spain's Quiet Revolution... E. Alan Walker

Higgins, the Blood Banker... Irene Corbally Kuhn

Today's Women Can't Cook... Art Smith

We Never Ate Better... Harry Schlegel

What Every Man Knows... Ray Neville

Camera Cuties (A Sign Picture Story)

God's Grace on the Gridiron... Donald A. Foskett

The First Day... Robert Cormier

The Wilderness... Kennedy MacDonald

Take Cleopatra, Take Benedict Arnold... Harry I. Shumway

"As Others See Us"... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Sports... Don Dunphy

Letters

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

Even the Dead Get Rich... Anita Colby

People

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

The Ascension... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Little Song - Poem... Austin Fowler

Books





Volume 33                 December 1953            #5



                    American Scene

In the Cabinet Hot Seat... John C. O'Brien

Farewell to Catholic College Football... Charles G. Johnson

Graveyard for Racketeers... Alonzo Tier

This Is Main Street, France... Bernard Redmont

Silent Night, Holy Night (A Sign Picture Story)

School for Late Vocations (A Sign Picture Story)

Sung Any Good Hymns Lately?... Paul Hume

My Search for Faith... Lord Pakenham

The Bishop Returns

National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

Anything You Want... Leslie Gordon Barnard

Christ-Mass at Dawn... Doran Hurley

The Island... James A. Dunn

Massacre at Qibiya... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Sports... Don Dunphy

Letters

A Carol of Stars and Snow - Poem... Sr. Mary of the Visitation

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonough, C.P.

People

Song for a Mother - Poem... Winifred Corrigan, R.C.

A Few Christmas Stories... Anita Colby

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

The Coming of the Holy Ghost... Gerald Vann, O.P.

Books

Christmas Books and Children