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...greatest cooperative evangelistic movement of the past half-century got under way this week. For the next 15 months-until New Year's Eve of 1950 -38 Protestant denominations, with a membership of some 35 million, will be united in trying to persuade the unchurched (estimated at 70 million) to join one of their denominations, take part in their work and devotions. Title of this all-out effort (which is sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches): the United Evangelistic Advance...
Whether the liberties Viani took with the female body were modern Italy's greatest sculpture or not, last week's award satisfied everybody of one new wonderful fact: in Italian sculpture, after long years of a dictator's regimentation, anything goes once again...
...Dear Friend and Gentle Hearts." With these last scribbled words of Stephen Foster* as a salutation, Fulton Oursler, onetime professional magician, veteran magazine editor and top writer of mysteries and a bestselling religious book (The Greatest Story Ever Told), last week began a syndicated column which big city newspapers were playing like an important story. The point of Oursler's first weekly column was that the Christian spirit has temporal rewards...
...church news" page, a dull collection of building-fund reports, warmed-over sermons and church-supper notes surrounded by profitable church ads. These pages sound the same week after week, bore editors as much as they do most readers. But last Easter, editors who ran Oursler's Greatest Story got a surprise; readers were so interested that circulation jumped 5,000 to 10,000 on several papers. The Chicago Daily News started the Greatest Story on Page One, kept it there under news headlines for 40 days...
...Clapp, was an insurance broker of East Orange, N.J., He was a kindly man with a small goatee and a frock coat who quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...