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...rival academies have referred to the Prix de Rome painters as "Little Savages" (TIME, May 19, 1930, May 18, 1931). By this they refer to Yale's Leffingwell Professor of Painting & Design, bristle-lipped Eugene Francis Savage, a muralist best known as the decorator of that amazing fane, the Elks National Memorial in Chicago. Professor Savage is an active member of the Fine Arts committee of the American Academy in Rome. Almost all recent winners of the Prix de Rome have painted in the manner of Eugene Francis Savage. Finding little in their own time to interest them, "Little...
...thing made this year's birthday parade different from all others. For the first time Russians were able to see the fane of Communism, the final, stone tomb of Nikolai Lenin. For years the "Communist saint" rested in a glass case under a truncated pyramid of weathered oak while state architects argued what form the permanent tomb should take...
...most U. S. collegians Oxford is a distant academic valhalla of stately ancient buildings where brilliant young men with mellifluent, clipped speech spend long days of leisure mixed with archaic studies; a temple of wit & learning, the bright fane of Anglo-Saxon civilization. Seldom does one of its paragons emerge actually to be seen and heard, but last week Princeton undergraduates had the privilege of observing and listening to the genuine Oxford article?pink-&-white, good-looking Randolph Churchill, 19, son of England's famed and effervescent Statesman Winston Churchill, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Brother Richard earned the right to be called "most active" last week when he donated an unlimited sum, which his fellow parishioners estimated would amount perhaps to $3,000,000, for the purpose of razing the present East Liberty Church and building a fifth, vastly more impressive fane. Richard B. Mellon let it be known that he wished the projected church to have a longer life than its predecessors; he intended that it should be equipped with recreation rooms, athletic plants, cinema apparatus, every churchgoers' convenience which has ever been devised or thought of, so that even after...
...population of Independence is approximately 13,000. Last fortnight for the first time, some 7,000 Reorganized Mormons crowded into a brand new, spacious $1,000,000 tabernacle where elaborate services were held with President Smith and 200 ministers officiating. Soaring from a hilltop, the domed towers of this fane testify for miles around that the thrifty industry of Reorganized Mormondom, as well as Mormondom, has paid...