Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brisk, 5 ft. 3 in. economics professor with a politician's flair. Now only 45, he was the second of ten children of a Tuscan republican who named his children after the heroes of Italy's risorgimento. Amintore was named after the man who wrote Hymn of the Workers, a labor union song which the Communists have since stolen. Amintore was still a bright young student, a particular whiz at math and physics, when Mussolini kicked his father out of Parliament for his liberalism...
...many years before World War II, Joda Isenbart was a contented kosher meat dealer in Vienna. Then came the Anschluss, which joined Austria's voice to that of Germany in Hitler's hymn of hate against the Jews. Joda and his family were sent from one concentration camp to another. All of their relatives were killed, but somehow or other. Joda, his wife and their three children survived. When the nightmare was over at last, Joda, like a million of his kind, raised his eyes from the ashes of his ruined life and his ruined world, toward Israel...
...book, Hymns for Children and Grownups (Farrar, Straus & Young, $3.75), is Layman Bristol's biggest contribution to the church to date. Written with Co-Author Harold W. Friedell, organist at Manhattan's fashionable St. Bartholomew's Church, it is a collection of 185 Christian hymns, clearly arranged and brightly decorated, with a very special purpose. Most hymnbooks are written for use in church. Bristol's book is expressly designed for the home. His thesis: "Hymn-singing can easily become a delightful part of family life...
Humming on the Beach. Bristol's business is advertising - he is products advertising manager of the Bristol-Myers chemical firm, of which his father is president -and he has used the tricks of his trade in working out his hymnbook. Last summer he tested each hymn on a "representative panel of children" before selecting it. Writes Bristol: "When we actually heard the children humming some of the melodies on the beach, we felt certain we were on the right track." To help out at family songfests, Bristol and Friedell have included classifications not normally found in hymnals, e.g., "When...
Take the High Ground (M-G-M), an Ansco Color hymn to the glories of the Army's basic training, was filmed to the tune of a flag-waving theme song (Take the high ground and hold it! Tho' you face eternity . . .). The raw recruits who are to be turned into soldiers include such familiar characters as the bragging Texan, the brash college boy, the sensitive Negro and the weakling. Happily, the picture spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt...