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...squat, solid fortress; its only spire is a relatively small, openwork metal fleche, topped by a painfully distorted cross (the building's detractors call it Radio Coventry). The long, saw-toothed east wall that runs along Coventry's crowded Priory Street is undecorated except for Sir Jacob Epstein's imposing four-ton figure of St. Michael staring down in triumph and compassion at the chained Devil. To Spence, the exterior is "like a plain jewel casket with many jewels inside." The church is entered through an open porch that connects St. Michael's ruins...
...girl's chances for happiness in her unequal partnership are pitifully slim. But Director Guy (The Mark} Green-with the help of Scriptwriter Julius (Tender Trap) Epstein, who at a dozen points has strengthened the motivation of the characters and the plausibility of the plot-plays so skillfully on the spectator's sentiments that even strong men may find themselves sniffling with joy at the poor kid's wedding. Green's management of the actors is also superb; every member of the cast performs at the top of his talent, and the 19-year...
ROBERT E. EPSTEIN...
Children and adults who are up to 256 pages will find sophisticated whimsy in The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster (Epstein & Carroll; $3.95), which leads a vagrant young Ulysses on an unaccountable world detour to the Island of Conclusions. Jules Pfeiffer's illustrations fall between Thurber and Searle, but still enhance the best juvenile buy of the season...
...Israel's new Jerusalem Museum of Art, he announced that he had persuaded U.S. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz to bequeath 300 original plasters to the museum.* Last week he announced another coup. While lunching in London a month ago, he said, he asked the widow of Sculptor Jacob Epstein just what her U.S.-born husband would have done with his 200-odd original plasters had he known that Rose was gathering works for the ambitious museum in Israel. "Give them to you," said Lady Epstein, and in Sir Jacob's name...