Word: girard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Orville Douglas, 56, Fair -Dealing, globe -trotting Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; and Mrs. Mercedes Hester Davidson, 37, longtime friend, admirer, and researcher for the Justice's last three travel books; both for the second time (her first: onetime Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson); in Tallulah...
Couturier himself supervised the adorning of the Assy church, which also boasts works by Braque, Léger, Chagall and Bonnard, and he inspired Matisse to design, singlehanded, a chapel at Vence. Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, has produced radically new churches in the U.S., and André Girard's stained glass for a chapel at Palo Alto, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 25) is rich in ideas. The Vatican has been called, with good reason, a citadel of conservatism in art, yet it has commissioned a rugged individualist named Giacomo Manzu to design a new door for St. Peter...
...Appointment of the week: Merle M. Odgers. 54, since 1936 president of Philadelphia's Girard College for orphans, to succeed Horace Hildreth. now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, as president of Bucknell University at Lewisburg...
...Abbey at St. Benedict, Ore. by a 55-year-old Californian named Louisa Jenkins. The stained-glass Sermon from the Boat (overleaf) is a replica detail of a window in St. Ann's Chapel of Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., designed by School-of-Paris Painter Andre Girard...
André Girard studied with two French masters, Georges Rouault and Pierre Bonnard, and his glowing darks and sparkling lights show the influence of both. Girard, who has experimented with many new techniques of stained-glass design, melted bits of colored glass onto clear panes in making his Sermon from the Boat. Rich in color and texture, the finished window seems to radiate devotion...