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...another last turnaround, TIME'S Art section this week is reproducing the prizewinners in the Art Institute of Chicago's 62nd showing of American art and the 25th biennial exhibition of American paintings at Washington's Corcoran Gallery as the awards are announced and the shows open. The Washington winners had already been picked. But the Chicago winners were not to be chosen until less than two weeks before the opening. Art Director Michael Phillips waited with a photographer in the gallery at the institute while the judges made their decision. Twenty-four hours after Phillips turned...
...biennial convention the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations in America backed members of a Mount Clemens, Mich, synagogue who are seeking court action against trustees trying to mix men and women in the synagogue pews. Said Union President Moses I. Feuerstein: mixed pews, forbidden by traditional Jewish law, are "the direct influence of the [Christian] church on the synagogue...
...Harrisburg. Pa., the United Lutheran Church in America, the U.S.'s largest (2,270,000 members) Lutheran body, concluded one of its most important conferences in years. After seven days of talk, some 700 delegates to the 20th biennial convention last week...
...basement of Seattle's Civic Auditorium, delegates to the biennial convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bricklayers Union were happily engaged in the normal pursuits of a beer bust one night last week when a pair of topflight Democratic politicians dropped in. He hoped, said Adlai Stevenson, that his amiable and popular companion, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson, would be re-elected by a big majority. Then he added: "And I hope he can carry somebody else along with...
...Lutherans never ceased to work for the rehabilitation of Bishop Ordass. And as the leaders of the United Lutheran Church in America met last week for their 20th biennial convention in Harrisburg, Pa., good news came from Hungary. "The Presidential Council of the Supreme Court," growled Radio Budapest, "has declared Lajos Ordass not guilty for lack of evidence." The news was particularly gratifying to Manhattan's Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, re-elected president last week for his seventh term. Last summer Dr. Fry, chairman of the central committee of the World Council of Churches was in Galyatetö, near...