Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to select the best stories in the Old Testament, cut them down for easier reading, and present them in a big well-printed book, profusely illustrated by an artist who could make the prophets and kings of Israel as real as the corner grocer and the local minister. The pictures on the four following pages are examples of what he meant. Along with 24 others, they are full-page illustrations for the big (9 in. by 12 in.) book, In Our Image* edited by Harte and published this week. The 26 stories, told in the fine, measured English...
Last week the tables were turned. Peppery Louis Maurer's works were safely tucked away in brochures of Americana or relegated to den and study walls, but Alfred's paintings were drawing crowds to a big, impressive Maurer show at Minneapolis' Walker Art Center...
...before 1945, although for 16 years he plugged away at them in the privacy of his Venice studio, smoothing their voluptuous plaster curves with wire brushes. At the end of World War II, he brought his work out into the open for the first time, won recognition at the big Venice Biennial show last year...
...Dear Friend and Gentle Hearts." With these last scribbled words of Stephen Foster* as a salutation, Fulton Oursler, onetime professional magician, veteran magazine editor and top writer of mysteries and a bestselling religious book (The Greatest Story Ever Told), last week began a syndicated column which big city newspapers were playing like an important story. The point of Oursler's first weekly column was that the Christian spirit has temporal rewards...
...Editors Boucher and McComas are so confident that they expect Fantasy to become a monthly. Says Boucher: "The detective story is getting into a blind alley of repetition. Science fiction may be the next big escape...