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...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...
...Captain Girard "Jerry" Haverty, one of two seniors in Kelley's starting eleven, will start at fullback. He is playing his third year of varsity ball, after two seasons of defensive action under the double platoon system...
...termed it "a vicious new scandal . . . perpetrated by high officials and politicians of the Administration." Since Harvey had been able to wangle a large power allotment from the Interior's Bonneville Power Administration before getting his loan approved, Saylor noted that Harvey had hired as his counsel C. Girard Davidson, one of Chapman's former assistants, who had worked with Northwest power agencies. Moreover, Saylor charged that the Harvey family, through big Democratic Party contributions, wielded potent influence on the Government. "With money he made off war contracts," said Saylor, Harvey had bought Los Angeles' Subway Terminal...
Died. E. (for Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius, 62, publisher of the famed, cut-rate (icy) "Little Blue Books"; by accidental drowning; in Girard, Kans. An outspoken socialist, agnostic and advocate of companionate marriage, in 32 years he sold more than 300 million copies of his books, ranging from Essence of the Bible to The Art of Kissing, made a small fortune, but failed to report $75,000 of it, was appealing a six-month jail sentence for income-tax evasion when he died...