Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a fragile piece of paper, 39 by 54 inches, but Britain's Royal Academy figured that it would sell for $2,800,000. And why not sell it? Leonardo's drawing of Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist would not be much missed−to judge from the scant attention it got in nearly 200 years at the academy, mostly not even on public display. Off to Sotheby's last March went the announcement that the drawing, thought to be the cartoon of Leonardo's similar painting in the Louvre...
...their prizes would be safe and laid his request before them: one masterpiece from each. From Washington's National Gallery of Art, he got John Singleton Copley's vibrant portrait of Epes Sargent. From the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City he got Carravaggio's St.John the Baptist: from Toledo, El Greco's The Annunciation: from the National Gallery of Canada, Chardin's La Gouvernante. North Carolina, Connecticut and California sent handsome loans (see color, opposite and overleaf...
...throughout the South suspect that too much success has drained him of the captivating fervor that made him famous. Says a Negro: "Martin comes in wearing his spiritual halo and blows on his flute and the money comes pouring in. But he doesn't even speak for the Baptist ministry, let alone 20 million Negroes...
...Bloys, Stated Clerk of the El Paso Presbytery, who rode out to a campsite in the Davis Mountains to preach for three days to a handful of cowpokes and ranch families. Onetime Texas Cattle Dealer Joe Evans, now 80, remembers hearing Bloys preach. Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in setting up a regular circuit of campfire meetings in 1940 for churchless southwestern areas. He still travels the circuit himself each summer, telling Bible stories and frontier yarns...
Sermons & Nostalgia. Although Montosa has its own tabernacle, the Presbyterians' Sunday School Missions Board puts up a tent for campfire meetings that have no permanent worship center, helps recruit ministers from four churches-Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and Disciples of Christ-to conduct services. Each meeting is backed by a local layman's association, which provides a campsite and the hearty food, cooked chuckwagon style. The Presbyterians now operate two circuits in ten states, expect to draw at least 21,000 people this summer...