Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murder & Belief. A slow, meticulous worker in the early Renaissance technique of egg tempera on gesso panels, Cadmus builds his pictures up with thousands of tiny brush strokes, finds time to complete only three or four a year. He had interspersed his Sins with cleverly composed little pictures of ballet dancers practicing and handsome boys having fun on beaches. There was also a photographically sharp scene of mob violence, Herrin Massacre, which described in bloody detail the murder of a gang of strikebreakers by coal miners at Herrin, Ill. in 1922. Like many of Cadmus' best works, Herrin...
...last week, the Times had published letters from an M.P., five bishops (four Anglican and one Catholic), several noted Roman Catholic writers (including Arnold Lunn and Robert Sencourt) and some 30 others. The Anglican Bishop of Winchester challenged Roman Catholicism to say whether it wanted cooperation and "to let it be known publicly" in what areas and how. "Any approach will meet with an immediate and welcoming response," wrote the bishop...
...Sing Sing's electric chair, in 1928, had such a death-house hullabaloo stirred the U.S. press. Chicago's lusty, raucous Herald-American had started it by running a Page One "exclusive photograph" of the electrocution of "Mad Dog Killer" James Morelli, 22, who had killed four men in what crime-loving Hearst newspapers called "the worst Chicago mass killing since the St. Valentine's Day massacre...
...South Bend, where Notre Dame's legendary Four Horsemen celebrated their 25th anniversary reunion, there was speculation about whether the 1949 Notre Dame's team was the best in the school's 62-year football history. "Let's say it's one of the greatest," said Horseman Elmer Layden, onetime fullback. But the 1949 entry made a good case for itself by crushing Southern California, 32-0, and stretching Notre Dame's unbeaten string to 37 games over four seasons...
...Canyon Reef. The Joe York No. i well last week was important not only to Joe York, his wife and four children, who would soon be getting an estimated $10,000 to $15,000 a month for life from the royalties of it and other wells. It had also proved up another big area in Scurry County's incredible Canyon Reef oilfield, where movie stars and other hopeful wildcatters had been prospecting for months (TIME, Oct. 10). To oilmen it looked as if the Scurry pool was the biggest since the East Texas field came in in 1930. Estimates...