Word: altar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gleaming structure of glass blocks and red brick produced by local architects who were chosen because they had never designed a Catholic church before, is strictly 20th Century. But it has one primitive feature that has rarely been seen in Christian churches since the 9th Century. Its altar is set in the center of the church (see cut), so that the face and hands of the priest offering Mass are visible to his congregation from three sides. The altar of the new cathedral to be built in Britain's bombed-out Coventry after the war (TIME, Feb. 21) will...
Unfrocked Altar Boy. Morton Downey's father was fire chief of Wallingford, Conn. At six, Morton got $1 for singing at a local minstrel show. "That money," says he, "made a terrific impact on me." Since then Downey claims to have gotten "more mileage" out of his voice than any other singer in the business...
Paul Whiteman signed up the cherubic, long-lashed song-plugger when he was 18 ("I looked like an unfrocked altar boy"). In between his songs with the band, Downey sat with the brass section and pretended to blow a horn, although he could not play a note. His salary boiled up to $350 a week...
...Virgin) from Milan's Brera Gallery. Painted about 1503, the Sposalizio, an early Raphael, is one of the world's best loved pictures. ¶ The famed "Ludovisi Throne,"* 5th Century B.C. Greek bas-relief, called The Birth of Venus. This work, thought to be an altar to Aphrodite, is one of the monuments of Greek art. ¶ Giorgione's priceless small landscape The Tempest. This enigmatic allegory, one of Giorgione's greatest paintings, is from Venice's Academy. The Vatican's negotiations for the art were interrupted in September by the Allied invasion...
...other side of the picture, the parish church had been unroofed, the steeple had been shot full of holes. Stations of the Cross were hanging loosely from the stone walls, and the pews and the altar itself were coated with plaster. The adjoining vicarage had been burned out. The altar flowers were wilting in their vases. The church doors were blown in, but no one was inside. Statues of the saints had toppled from their niches...