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The Sign Magazine

Contents 1955


Volume 34                  January 1955             #6



Help for Retarded Children... Harry Press

City Boy - Country Boy (A Sign Picture Story)

Jo Mielzener's Return to Orthodoxy.. Milton Lomask

What's "Peaceful" Coexistence?... David J. Dallin

Do the French Hate Americans?... Hannibal Towle

Resettling Europe's Expellees (A Sign Picture Story)

A Letter to My Ex-Husband... Anonymous

Amahl and the Night Visitors... John Lester

Heard Any Good Choirs Lately?... Paul Hume

Restoring Christ to the Family... Edgar Schmiedeler, O.S.B.

The Nunnery Garden... Byran MacMahon

The Jilted Girl... Frank Bennett

The Apostolic Savage... Neil Kevin

Dear Mr. Dulles... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Sports... Red Smith

Letters

Peter the Apostle... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

People

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

A Link in the Chain... Anita Colby

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

Books





Volume 34                  February 1955            #7



Comic-Book Judge... William M. Healy

Father Comey: Water-front Peacemaker... Irwin Ross

Xavier University (A Sign Picture Story)

They Rebuild the Church (A Sign Picture Story)

England's Catholic Radical... Andrew Boyle

Main Street, Bolivia... Francis X. Lyons, M.M.

Inside Monastery Walls... Jim Bishop

The Bleeding Tears... Jude Mead, C.P.

Boys' Town Choir... Anita Colby

February Storm... Maura Laverty

The Impossible Rosa... Ann Chidester

Chill Winds from Moscow... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Sports... Red Smith

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

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

The Two-Edged Sword... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

Books





Volume 34                  March 1955               #8



Bigotry in Action... Dale Francis

New York's Tough Judge... Milton Lomask

Peron Against the Church... Robert X. Young

A Day With Dublin's Finest (A Sign Picture Story)

Indo-China's Bamboo Curtain (A Sign Picture Story)

Mysterious Antarctica... Frank Remington

Know Your Enemy... Louis F. Budenz

Sign of Contradiction... Jude Mead, C.P.

Blood Pressure: New Facts... Joseph D. Wassersug, M.D.

The Boy in the Meadow... Arthur J. Roth

Thy Towers Stand... Michael Foster

The Ultraconservative Catholic... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

Freedom and Holiness... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

Baseball's Managerial Caste.. Red Smith

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Cross-Journey - Poem... Anne Tansey

People

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

Books





Volume 34                  April 1955               #9



The Housewife's Friend... John C. O'Brien

New Directions in American Labor... Mary Heaton Vorse

Lightning Joe Collins... Joseph T. Nolan

A Soul for Germany... Anthony B. Atar

Main Street, South Africa... Desmond J. Hatton

Stamps Can Make You Rich... Arthur Victorson

School for Divers (A Sign Picture Story)

Pilgrimage by Night... Jude Mead, C.P.

Nurse Midwives of Santa Fe (A Sign Picture Story)

Romeo, Juliet, and Dr. Dominion... Myles Connolly

The Returning... Mary Meadors

Yield, and Have Peace... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Televisioin... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

Passion and Easter Poems

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

People

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Truth or Consequences... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

My April Tree - Poem... Frances Stockwell Lovell

The Race Is On... Red Smith

Books





Volume 34                  May 1955                 #10



Jitters in Detroit... Edwin A. Lahey

Main Street: Rural America... Joseph and Mary Kenney

American Housewife (A Sign Picture Story)

Archbishop of the Workers... Francis Bruce

Escapees - America's Shame... Hannibal Towle

The Church in Korea... Douglas Hyde

Suffer Little Children (A Sign Picture Story)

Four Lads, a Song, and a Prayer... William A. Coleman

His Father's Business... Jude Mead, C.P.

Tuesday's Children... Walter Macken

Uncle Hendrick... Ludwig Krahforst

Send the Girl Home... Brassil Fitzgerald

Encore for Ultraconservatives... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

Euthanasia - Poem... Sister Mary Helen, C.S.C.

Gloriosa Regina Mundi - Poem... Margaret D. Conway

The Gentleman Sinner... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

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

Twenty-One... Red Smith

People

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

So Much, So Much - Poem... Herbert A. Kenny

Books





Volume 34                  June 1955                #11



Muggs and Mergers... William J. Smith, S.J.

Main Street, Canada... James G. Shaw

Never to Return... Richard M. Menges

Yardstick for the Nation... Frank Remington

How Catholic is France?... Barrett McGurn

Romulo Talks to Americans... Harry W. Flannery

I Like Being a Dominican... Sister Mary Jean Dorcy, O.P.

Student Nurse (A Sign Picture Story)

The Cross Road... Jude Mead, C.P.

Liturgical Artist (A Sign Picture Story)

Perils of Paradise... Jay Worthington

Salvage... John T. Rowland

The Secret... Marie Therese Prohaska

The Progressive Conservative... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

Love, Needs, and Torment... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Profession Day - Poem... Florence Wedge

Portrait of an Altar Boy - Poem... Frances Frieseke

The Black Sox... Red Smith

People

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

Books





Volume 34                  July 1955                #12



Senator from Rhode Island... John C. O'Brien

Your Stake in Public Housing... Milton Lomask

School for Young Homemakers (A Sign Picture Story)

The Fishing Priests of Boulogne-sur-Mer (A Sign Picture Story)

Gaza: Home of the Hopeless... Alan McGregor

Town and Country... Art Smith & Harry Schlegel

Lady in Waiting... Jude Mead, C.P.

We've Got Plenty of Loving... Josephine Torrell

The Failure... John J. Ryan

Day at the Beach... Jerry Cotter

The Treasure Box... Hugh B. Cave

Four-Power Conference... Ralph Gorman

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

Introspection - Poem... Herbert Parker

People

God and the Patriot... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

The Mirror - Poem... George Warburton Lewis

Firebuilder - Poem... Helen Harrington

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

The Old Sergeant... Red Smith

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Books





Volume 35                   August 1955              #1



The Suede-Shoe Boys... William P. Walsh

Where the Aged are People (A Sign Picture Story)

Democratic Ferment West of the Andes... Edwin A. Lahey

Parish of the Poor (A Sign Picture Story)

Belgium's School War... Therese de Caraman Chimay

One-Man Task Force... Victor Riesel

Salute to a Bigot... Henry Edwards

Should Mom Go to Work?... Robert Senser

The Last Mothering... Jude Meade, C.P.

Missing Person... Giovanni Guareschi

The Girl Mechanic... Ruth Hume

The Ultraconservative and Internationalism... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

God the Father... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

People

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Young Maidens Running - Poem... Jessica Powers

The Young Bucks... Red Smith

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

Books





Volume 35                   September 1955           #2



Is the Church Reaching the Workingman?... John Cort

City of the Mind (A Sign Picture Story)

Interracial Seminary (A Sign Picture Story)

How Catholic is Austria?... Fay Behan

Villa Schifanoia... Ethel J. Good

Family at Sea (A Sign Picture Story)

The Drug with the Thousand Uses... Joseph D. Wassersug, M.D.

What's So Special About Nurses?

   ... Most Rev. Richard J. Cushing, as told to Brassil Fitzgerald

The Great Stone... Jude Mead, C.P.

Race With Death... Mack Costigan

Swarm of Thrushes... Maura Laverty

Germany and Russia... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

Communist Crazy-Quilt... Albert D. Sears

Legend (Poem)... Rachel Harris Campbell

Joseph (Poem)... Jessica Powers

The Champ and the Challenger... Red Smith

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

People

The Truth Is Dangerous... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Books





Volume 35                   October 1955             #3



Big Lawmaker from New Orleans... Paul F. Healy

Detroit Parish (A Sign Picture Story)

Spain Today... Desmond Fennell

African Catholics and the Color Line... Andrew Murray

Italy's Boys of the Streets (A Sign Picture Story)

There's a Bowery in Your Town... Jim Bishop

Good People Must Have Crosses... Gerard Rooney, C.P.

The Contrivance of Jaime Sevar... William A. Breyfogle

The Place... Catherine Sheridan

The Pope Teaches... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and sCreen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Contemplation (Poem)... Rachel Harris Campbell

Tree and Bridge (Poem)... Ralph Chaplin

The Big Show... Red Smith

People

At the Sacristy Door... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

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

Books





Volume 35                   November 1955            #4



The Inclement Mr. Lane (A Sign Picture Story)

The Bank With a Soul... Gerard E. Sherry

Main Street, Italy... Vincent Tortora

Five of a Kind (A Sign Picture Story)

The Church and Labor... John F. Cronin, S.S.

Asthma - Unnecessary Disease?... Joseph D. Wassersug, M.D.

Patron Saints Unlimited... Florence Wedge

I Learned to Believe... S. A. Kokot

How Safe Is Your Home?  (A Sign Picture Story)

The Gulls of a Great Lake... George Vukelich

The Young Mrs. Apperson... Anne West

Shadow or Substance?... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

Military Mass - Poem... Katherine Gorman

People

Sign Post... Aloysius McDonnell, O.S.B.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Sinners and Cynics... Red Smith

Books





Volume 35                   December 1955            #5



Christopher in the Pentagon... John C. O'Brien

Buffalo's Cadet Teachers... Don Barry

Terror - Unincorporated... Victor Riesel

Secrets of the Hidden Cloisters... Paul C. Benard

Austrian Children's Town... A Sign Picture Story

Christmas Comes Alive... Anobel Armour

Friendship House Christmas... A Sign Picture Story

The Real Santa Claus... Gerard Eliot

Golf's "Queen Pat"... Charles G. Johnson

The Flutter as of Wings... Robert Cormier

The Locket... Marie Therese Prohaska

Editor's Page: The Real Christmas

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

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

What About the Happy Dead?... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

Army v. Navy... Red Smith

Books

Christmas and Children's Books... Anne Thaxter Eaton