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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner did the U.S. press publish the design than a storm of protests blew in on the Navy Department. Like Designer Burnham, the protesters were all Protestants. The state of Washington's Council of Churches found the design "sacrilegious ... an utter mockery of the sacredness of worship. . . . Weapons of war might as well be placed on the altar or pulpit as to allow this horrible creation ... to desecrate the sanctuary of worship." The influential Christian Century found it "rather shocking to see that symbol of gentleness and grace" holding a warship, but was thankful that "the figure of Christ...
There was no Catholic protest, although some Catholics criticized the window as art, complained that the design was not particularly appropriate. Jesuit Father John LaFarge (son of famed Painter John LaFarge) called the window "unobjectionable." "It does not mean," he added, "that the Blessed Mother is taking a partisan stand, but that she feels a maternal concern for our men in service." Last week the Navy ordered Designer Burnham to remove the warship from his design, substitute the Infant Jesus...
...months developments which would normally take five years of research from idea to finished product. Perhaps the best example of how Dr. Bush's group works was its famed amphibian truck, the "Duck." The problem: to produce a 2½-ton truck (based on an amphibian jeep previously designed by OSRD) which could run on land and water and do heavy duty in beachhead operations. It was a job at which many had failed; most attempts had simply placed an ordinary truck on pontoons, with dampening results. OSRD assigned the ticklish part of the design, not to a truck...
...shield-shaped insignia last week blossomed on the sleeves of U.S. soldiers attached to General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters in Britain. Officials said that its complicated design is symbolic...
...graces of the art of design were fittingly embodied last week when Miss Elena Davila (see cut) won Columbia University's twelfth annual medal for social architecture. The competition subject was a recreation-area shelter. Born in Puerto Rico, Miss Davila studied at Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill Academy, is an equestrian and stamp collector, a skillful photographer, an enthusiastic dancer in the Spanish manner. Her father, an alumnus of M.I.T., is Lieut. Commander Jorge V. Davila, U.S.N.R., now on duty in Puerto Rico...