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...included only one Catholic: Jesuit Father John LaFarge, who acted as chairman. Few of the artists chosen were Catholics, either. Among them were such big names as Ivan Mestrovic-whose stilted but forceful Madonna and Child was perhaps the best sculpture in the show-and a number of accomplished craftsmen like Oronzio Maldarelli (TIME, Nov. 15). Henry Rox, who carves vegetables for a hobby, contributed a gaunt, convincingly adolescent Joan of Arc, and Helene Sardeau (Mrs. George Biddle) made the same saint look as if she had just been blackjacked...
...City (20th Century-Fox) is one up on most movies in two ways. The screen play, by Richard Murphy, who wrote Boomerang!, is unusually thoughtful and pointed. And the picture is directed by Robert Siodmak, one of those quaint, old-fashioned craftsmen who still believe that a movie should move and be visually interesting...
...Limoges last week went art lovers and scholars from all parts of France. No one could tell them the names of the old craftsmen who had made the enamels. Working with a more than personal pride, they had turned out their work unsigned...
...many have to leave before graduation, Campbell concentrates on teaching every boy & girl some employable skill in the first half year. In the auto-shop course, a boy learns to grease a car; in the dressmaking course, a girl learns to cut dress parts. Students who stay become skilled craftsmen: some of Dunbar's sheet-metal graduates make $125 a week...
...hunchback who became the greatest satirical poet of his century (the 18th), usually had the last word, and usually it lasted. Vain and touchy, a brilliant, malicious destroyer of reputations, he was a critical menace to the dull and mediocre in life and literature. Also one of the ablest craftsmen of verse who ever lived, he packed more in a couplet than others could in a stanza. Unlike many modern poets, he wrote both lucidly and sharply; he intended to be understood by every intelligent reader. He died of dropsy at 56. These characteristic lines (reprinted from the Selected Works...