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...using parables, Jesus was "a great artist, a superb storyteller, a born dramatist. . . ." In performing miracles He revealed "a God of love." But the author, who shies away from the supernatural, does not believe that Lazarus was raised from the dead. Lazarus' relatives and friends and the Gospel chronicler may have believed it, but "there is nothing [in the Biblical account] that compels us to believe that Lazarus was literally dead." Lazarus may have been brought "back to health" by Jesus' "power of mind and will" and by "the therapy of his own abundant vitality...
Died. Felix Salten, 76, Viennese essayist, novelist, dramatist, known in the U.S. only for his sometimes touching, sometimes saccharine books about animals (most famed: Bambi, Disneyized in 1942) ; after long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
Shortly after completing this 23-page verse-play, yo-year-old Robert Frost came down with pneumonia, lay wondering if God were punishing him for having written it. Happily-and justly-he recovered. A poet whose work has often been implicit drama, Frost is outright dramatist in A Masque of Reason-and still the New England philosopher asking questions about the nature of things...
...studied privately with the swami. His latest novel, Time Must Have a Stop, bears the marks of his study. Erudite Philosopher Gerald Heard (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity), son of an Anglican churchman and a professed agnostic since youth, was another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta and the West, now co-edited by Isherwood. Larry, the dissatisfied young hero of Somerset Maugham's current best-selling novel, The Razor's Edge, whose search for faith...
Died. Sadakichi Hartmann, eightyish, dramatist, artist, philosopher and mop-haired onetime "King of Greenwich Village"; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, son of a Korean woman and a German munitions worker, he married three times, begat 15 children, named one set after jewels, another set for flowers, was the boon companion of artistic greats, from Walt Whitman to John Barrymore...