Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inconvenient to move the Alps into someone's office, but this Alpine calendar provides a different scene from these picturesque mountains at every flick of the page. The scenes, in full color, portray the icy, aloof, majesty of the range with sharp clarity...
SCHOENHOF'S is featuring the calendar at $1.50, along with other Swiss imported calendars at their 1280 Massachusetts Avenue store. All are strongly mounted to make a handsome desktop ornament...
...Human Interest (which ranks ahead of Outdoor Life & Sports, Humor and Religion in popularity). Chicago's Harry Anderson, who has done a series of annual calendar celebrations of American boyhood, painted Hurry Up. Using opaque water-colors (because he is allergic to turpentine), he makes pictures that are just true enough to life and no more imaginative than the market calls...
Although the best calendar art cannot be compared with the best serious painting, it shows far more technical facility and clarity of purpose than the efforts of merely average "fine artists." And these calendar pictures-apparently enjoyed by millions- inevitably open the door to an understanding of art in general...
...make such a preaching calendar come true is the ambition of Donald Grey Barnhouse, the bustling pastor of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church. It does not matter to him that these illustrious preachers are all dead or that some of their audiences may number no more than 15 people. The trick will be turned by a spool of plastic tape and a standard 110-volt light socket. To distribute what he calls Portable Church Services, Barnhouse has turned to the tape recorder...