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Straight-Speaking Pictures. Also conspicuous in the show were the works of Gerard Sekoto, the only Negro artist included. Sekoto was born 35 years ago at a little hill station in the Transvaal where his father was the local mission teacher. As a child he had sketched on the sly, gotten occasional encouragement from schoolmasters, won his first prize in a school competition-a Bible and five shillings. In 1939 he set out for Johannesburg to seek his fortune as an artist. In a few years he had taught himself to paint vivid, straight-speaking pictures of fellow natives crowded...
Eighteen months ago, when the Union government launched the African show on the world tour which has already taken it to London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Ottawa, Sekoto had already left Johannesburg and was in Paris. There he hoped to get a look at the works of the great European masters he revered, learn more about his craft...
Accusing Voices. Paris hadn't been easy. Sekoto couldn't afford a studio, painted instead in his small, airless hotel room, laying his canvases on the floor where a small square of light fell. Three weeks ago he began hearing accusing voices repeating "You're no good, Gerard. Your painting is no good." To escape the voices, he tried to drink poison, hang himself. Friends rescued him, sent him off to the asylum of Ste. Anne...
...Milton Stanford, a practicing Pantheist,* was first elected to the town council of Brentwood, Md. two years ago. He was sworn in with an oath of office, customary in Brentwood, which contained the phrase "I believe in God." He made no objection at the time but, after thinking it over later on, decided he could not again honestly swear to the statement...
Lutherans took issue with the cardinal on a matter of fundamental principle: the separation of church and state, "a cherished ideal of all American Lutherans since they first arrived on American soil 300 years ago." Lutherans did not seek federal aid to education, declared Dr. John W. Behnken, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the most conservative of the large Lutheran groups.* Even if the Government should offer help to private schools, Dr. Behnken said, "there must be a clear understanding that no Government assistance can be given to support the instructional program of church schools. If there...