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Alice Stallknecht Wight of Chatham, Mass. is an artist who knows how to get her unskilled, matter-of-fact portraits into newspaper headlines. She paints her Cape Cod neighbors into a Biblical subject, gives the mural to Chatham's First Congregational Church which was founded in 1696 by a fisherman. Three years ago she did it with Christ Preaching to the Multitude, with a beardless, sneering Portuguese fisherman for Christ (TIME, Aug. 15, 1932). Last week she made more headlines when she gave First Congregational a companion piece called The Last Supper...
...scene is a New England Wednesday night church supper of brown bread, baked beans, coffee. At the long tables all plates are turned down, while Christ at a little centre table asks a blessing. To Christ's right (facing the picture) sits Mrs. Sidney Atwood, president of Chatham's Church Association, with Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Buck (oysters). To the left beams Mrs. George Eldredge, association vice president. Just beneath Christ are Chatham's oldest inhabitant, 94-year-old Captain Sam Harding, and Dr. Northing, with arms folded. Behind the doctor are three Coast Guard captains. Next...
Dining in a Chatham, Ont. hotel, Composer Sigmund Romberg took a fancy to the hotel harpist, asked her to play Deep in My Heart from his Student Prince. The harpist did not know it. Could she play his Only a Rose? No. His Auf Wiedersehen? No. Composer Romberg ripped off his collar, autographed it, thrust it at the harpist, finished his dinner collarless...
...March for $10,000. Section by section the century-old brick structures were dismantled, barged down the Savannah River, up the Ogeechee to become the seat of the 75,000-acre domain which Mr. Ford has pieced together from 30 antebellum plantations for a winter home in Bryan and Chatham Counties...
...indeed to the ghosts of the Earl of Chatham, Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott to realize that the only place in the world where the name Whig still denotes a political party is among the blackamoors of Liberia. Whig, or Whiggamore was a Scots-Gaelic word originally applied to horse thieves, but because Liberia's independence was first proclaimed during the period of Whig supremacy in the U. S., Liberian politicians find Whig a most potent name to call themselves. Liberians went to the polls fortnight ago for the first Liberian presidential election in 4 years. Last...