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Sins of Imagination. White-robed, ascetic-looking Father Couturier, 51, his tonsure sharply outlined against his close-cropped head, his brown eyes bright with his own soaring imagination, has become the light and power of a small but significant movement among French artists. From the first, his primary concern has been to preach and minister to men. But in his spare time he has devoted his energies tirelessly to visiting the studios of artists everywhere and telling them that the Church is where their work belongs. In addition he founded, twelve years ago, the little magazine L'Art Sacr...
Gradually he has won the interest of scoffers and agnostics among the painters, even including a few Communists, e.g., Picasso. Father Couturier welcomes them all, whatever the state of their faith. "We start," he explains, "with the assumption that artists are men and therefore sinners. If their sins are sometimes startling, it is because they are men of imagination, artists. But all spring from our culture and even our religion . . . When some think themselves communist, it is as artists are communist, out of love for the poor. We must free them to work for us, give them the right...
Father Couturier has several projects in various stages of completion. Sometimes they are delayed by ecclesiastics who have strenuously differing views about how a church should be decorated. But the work of Father Couturier is finding growing support among his fellow churchmen and also among such anticlericals as Henri Matisse, the grand old man of French painting. Said Matisse thoughtfully last week: "Father Couturier is a sensitive, intelligent and capable man. He is very active, very imaginative, and is currently doing a great deal...
...slight, wiry Lewis C. ("Squeaky") Burwell was washed out of the Army's aviation cadet training program by his superior, Claire Chennault. When World War II came, stubborn Squeaky Burwell got his chance to fly in combat and as a transport pilot in China. One day he found among his passengers General Claire Chennault. "Brother," said Burwell, "you better get out. It's going to be a rough ride...
...group to appear among the big names were automobile dealers; at least ten appeared with incomes above $75,000. Springfield, Ill.'s Chevrolet Dealer E. W. Bates ($192,784) earned more than General Motors President Charles E. Wilson ($166,100) and almost as much as Ford Motor Co.'s President Henry Ford II ($200,000). Actually, the list was not a true measure of those with the biggest incomes-as usual, no dividends, royalties or capital gains were included...