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...stealing of art has become such a popular pastime with the highbrow underworld that it has also become-as news, at least-a bit of a bore. But last week's heist from the respected O'Hana Gallery in London was the biggest in British history. Gone from the gallery's choice "Summer Exhibition" were 35 paintings, including works from the recently sold Sir Alexander Korda collection, Renoir's magnificent Andree Assise from the Somerset Maugham collection, and the well-known Tilling the Vineyard, by Toulouse-Lautrec. The market value of the haul was estimated...
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. The surviving member of a pair of old literary feudists is led, by his antagonist's death, to some uncomfortable conclusions about his own life. One of the best novels of an older English writer whose work is too little appreciated...
Byproduct of Billy. Christianity Today preaches a kind of literate, highbrow fundamentalism. Strongly conservative in its economic and political views, strongly Biblical in its theology, it is a byproduct of the one-man refurbishing job done on the U.S. Protestant church by Billy Graham, a frequent C.T. contributor, and in fact its cofounder. In 1955 Graham and his father-in-law, Dr. L. Nelson Bell, a Presbyterian layman, asked a number'of church leaders if they felt that Christianity needed a new nondenominational magazine, not-so liberal as the old and prestigious Christian Century (circ. 37,500). Bell organized...
...work planning a new magazine that he hopes to see on the stands by next February: an unnamed monthly, to be a mixture of the styles of FORTUNE and Encounter, aimed at a business audience. Beaumont has no intention of forsaking his other publishing ventures: the highbrow Anglican monthly Prism, another monthly of news about the Liberal Party, a religiously oriented children's weekly called Wonderland, a church news sheet that is syndicated to parish magazines...
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swin-nerton. The surviving member of a pair of old literary feudists is led, by his antagonist's death, to some uncomfortable conclusions about his own life. One of the best novels of an older English writer whose work is too little appreciated...