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...statement that was genuinely Biblical, that was expressed in the words of our time, and that had the form and character to make it suitable for liturgical use. We found our efforts always turned out to be patterned on the Apostles' Creed: first we talk about God, the Creator and Father, then about the Son, and next about the Holy Spirit . . . We omitted any reference to the Virgin Birth because we want to emphasize that God comes to us as a real man in the Man of Nazareth . . . both a man among...
Died. Vittorio Podrecca, 76, creator of the Rome-based Piccoli puppet theater, a group of 800 sprightly marionettes (manipulated by 23 minutely trained humans) who parodied human behavior from bullfights to ballet, charmed European and U.S. audiences in their grand tours in the '30s; in Geneva...
...indeed from the realism of the Moulin Rouge is its rather Redonesque treatment of lighting, color and brush-work. Its monumental figures (note the left foreground personage or Messaline herself) and themes are straight out of the Golden Age, giving Lautrec a new dignity as a creator of significant content which I, for one, would never have thought possible...
...C.I.O. Born in 1933 on a wave of city-room salary slashes, the Guild was nursed through infancy by its fat and rumpled creator, the late famed Scripps-Howard columnist, Heywood Broun. It took plenty of nursing. Fledgling chapters had a distressing tendency to melt under pressure: during a 1935 strike against the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Guild membership on the 84-man news staff dwindled from 39 to 24. At first the newsmen resisted joining a national labor movement sponsored by common laborers, but within four years the Guild affiliated with John L. Lewis' new Committee for Industrial Organization...
Died. Sax Rohmer (pen name for Arthur Sarsfield Ward), about 76, creator of 20th century English fiction's most durable villain: Fu Manchu; after long illness ; in London. Modeled on a mysterious Chinese Rohmer spotted one night in 1913 in the Limehouse fog, wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his Anglo-Saxon pursuers in and out of 13 books and the most exotic parts of the world, assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly...