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The Sign Magazine

Contents 1956


Volume 35                   January 1956             #6



Catholic Schools in Canada... James G. Shaw

The Borough Jack Built... William M. Healy

Music to their Ears... Paul Hume

Downfall of a Dictator... Robert X. Young

Eskimo Encounter... A Sign Picture Story

Divorce: The Blindest Alley... Joanne Mitchell

Whatever Lola Wants. Lola Gets... Lucile Hasley

The Brave Bachelors... A Sign Picture Story

Passports of the Highway... Frank Remington

Ma, Don'tCry... Kermit Shelby

Sister's Pet... Catherine Sheridan

A Day to be Killed... Jean MacKeagan

Israel and the Arabs... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

Positive Catholicism... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

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

Of Horses and Men... Red Smith

Books





Volume 35                   February 1956            #7



The Making of a Doctor... A Sign Picture Story

New Salem: Lincoln's Turning Point... A Sign Picture Story

Politics in Their Blood... Bob Senser

Italy's President Gronchi... Francis Bruce

How Catholic is England?... Maurice Quinlan

The Church in the Satellites... John MacCormac

Six Obstacles to a Happy Marriage... Alphonse Calabrese

The Cross is the Answer... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

A Godfather for Nicky... Joseph Petracca

A Pinch of Salt... Richard Sullivan

Mr. John Q. Public, Consumer... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

Christ and Lard... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

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

People

A Sight Without Glasses... Red Smith

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Books





Volume 35                   March 1956               #8



New York's Puerto Ricans... William M. Healy

McCarthy of Minnesota... A Sign Picture Story

Catholic Ireland... John D. Sheridan

Priest and Prince... C. Gregory Jensen

Happiness: Yours for the Making... Robert P. Odenwald, M.D.

The Cross and Length of Life... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

The Church Looks at Business... John F. Cronin, S.S.

Apostle in a Parish... A Sign Picture Story

Penny for your thoughts... Robert Craig

Police Car... Michael Foster

Catholics and the Holy Land... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

Two Poems... Thomas Merton

The "Why" of Mortification... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

The Quiet Man... Red Smith

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

Books





Volume 35                   April 1956               #9



I Was a Police Detective... Lieut. James M. Sloan

School Bell for Diplomats... John C. O'Brien

Canterbury to Rome... Douglas Hyde

Sophia University... A Sign Picture Story

New Dimension in Education... Adolph Schalk

The Cross and Achievement... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

The Face of Childhood... A Sign Picture Story

Who's Afraid of Old Age... Milton Lomask

How to Handle Your Nerves... Joseph D. Wassersug, M.D.

In This Corner, Dr. Dominion... Myles Connolly

Of Long Ago... John Cunningham

Peace in the Near East... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

Regina - Poem... Eleanor M. Richards

People

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

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

Sons of the Resurrection... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

How Smith Picks Them... Red Smith

Books





Volume 35                   May 1956                 #10



Sister Ignatia and the A.A. ... Gerard E. Sherry

What's Happened to the Senate?... Paul F. Healy

Catholic Action in New Mexico... A Sign Picture Story

Bronx Trooper... A Sign Picture Story

Leader of Free Vietnam... Patrick O'Connor

The Church in Japan... W. A. Kaschmitter, M.M.

Is the Church Opposed to Psychiatry?... John G. Novak, M.D.

Charge It, Miss... Irv. Leiberman

The Cross and Material Goods... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

Two Great Encyclicals... John C. Cort

Wanted: A Saint in a Business Suit... Louise J. Lind

The Voyage... Ellen Murphy

Lvinia... Anne West

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

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

May Day Valentine - Poem... Isabel Harriss Barr

People

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

Racism and the Eucharist... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

You Can't Label the Derby... Red Smith

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

Books





Volume 35                   June 1956                #11



My Son Joseph... Catherine Tarantino

Thugs and Communists... Victor Riesel

Canada's Top Statesman... Anthony J. Wright

The Three Lives of Canon Kir... Robert Rigby

Whither Soviet Russia?... David J. Dallin

Australia Is Not Like Texas... Wilfrid Sheed

They Marry From the Saddle... A Sign Picture Story

The Inimitable Mr. Hitchcock... Jerry Cotter

The Cross and Human Relations... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

Religious Training for the Younger Set... Mary Zook

No End to Love... Robert Cormier

His Lordship Likes the Mud... Charles E. P. Simmons

Partners in Crime... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

His Hammer, His Sickle - Poem... Clifford J. Laube

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

The Instinct of God... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

People

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

The Lefthanded Dentist... Red Smith

Books

Letters





Volume 35                   July 1956                #12



Southern Catholics and Integration... A Special Sign Report

Tri-Une:

Where Parents and Teenagers Talk Things Over... Milton Lomask

About Those Lobbyists... Paul F. Healy

Germany's Foreign Minister... David M. Nichol

Apostle in the Executive Suite... Ray Neville

Billy Goes to Camp... (A Sign Picture Story)

The Cross and Temptation... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

American Summer... Michael Foster

The Homecoming... Frank Bennett

Uncle Sam and His Friends... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

The Cry of Quiet Desperation... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

People

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

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

The Gentle Rock... Red Smith

Books





Volume 36                  August 1956              #1



Jimmy on the Spot... William M. Healy

The Quiet Trouble Shooter... John C. O'Brien

Peace for Palestine... Alfred M. Lilienthal

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

France's Plainclothes Sisters... Cherry Cook

The King's Jesters... Florence Wedge

Eastern Rite Seminary... A Sign Picture Story

Diogenes, Here They Are... Harold M. Helfer

The Cross and Prayer... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

Love is a Headache... Frances Stanley

Man... Ellen Murphy

The Editor Talks Back... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

"O Clemens, O Pia, O Dulcis" - Poem... Sister M. Philip, C.S.C.

The Symbol - Poem... Herbert A. Kenny

A Leader Leads... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

People

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

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

Horses and Men... Red Smith

Books





Volume 36                  September 1956           #2



Apostle of the Folk Song... Ruel E. Foster

Judge Burke: Marriage Mender... Charles G. Johnson

How Catholic is Latin America?... Albert J. Nevins, M.M.

Main Street, Russia... William Worthy

The Pet Shop... A Sign Picture Story

Catholic Mission to Catholics... Milton Lomask

The Blessing of the Animals... A Sign Picture Story

The Cross and Life's Purpose... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

Debra's Vase... Anne Mae Buckley

Even Agamemnon... Richard Sullivan

No Panic, Please... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

Confession of a Priest... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

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

No Peril in the Fight... Red Smith

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

Books





Volume 36                  October 1956             #3



Campaigns and How They Grew... John C. O'Brien

We Have With Us Tonight... Frank Thomas

Haiti... A Sign Picture Essay

6000 Voices - One Choir... Robert Rigby

Obstacles to Successful Motherhood... Edward A. Strecker, M.D.

                            and Vincent T. Lathbury, M.D.

The King's English... Wilfrid Sheed

The Cross and Human Pride... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

Mountain Yellow... Anne West

Time to Quit... Frank P. Jay

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

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

Heroism... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

The Hunt - Poem... Patricia Duff McGinley

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

People

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

The Legend of the Yankees... Red Smith

Books





Volume 36                  November 1956            #4



Father Maurice Challenges the South... Milton Lomask

Mayoress of San Juan... A Sign Picture Story

On Your Marks, Get Set... Charles G. Johnson

The Man With the Sack... A Sign Picture Story

The Church in Switzerland... Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

The Many-Gifted Mrs. Kerr... Philip J. Scharper

The Cross and Human Hope... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

The Hunting of the Unicorn... Frank P. Jay

The Faces on the Haystack... Stephen Tall

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

Current Fact and Comment

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Radio and Television... John Lester

Letters

"All Things Praise the Lord"... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burgon

The Eternal Tomboy... Red Smith

People

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

Books





Volume 36                  December 1956            #5



American Family Christmas... A Sign Picture Story

Anticatholicism: Unmentionable Problem... John J. Kane, Ph.D.

I'm Smart to Stay Around... Georgianna Carhart

Christmas in Provence... A Sign Picture Story

The Church in Pakistan... John Callahan

Christmas Poems

How's Your Musical I.Q.?... Paul Hume

The Christmas Candle... Doran Hurley

The Cross and the Crib... Bertrand Weaver, C.P.

Ludie and the Church Girl... Frank J. Canney

The Circus Pony... Michael McLaverty

Father Higgins... Arthur Cavanaugh

Near East Aggression... Ralph Gorman, C.P.

Current Fact and Comment

Radio and Television... John Lester

Stage and Screen... Jerry Cotter

Letters

The Restless Christian... Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B.

People

A Yuletide Wager... Red Smith

Woman to Woman... Katherine Burton

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

Books

Christmas Books and Children... Anne Thaxter Eaton

Cover: Color Photo By Jacques Lowe