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...remember reading in the Art section (TIME, July 6) that this statue had been purchased from a Manhattan dealer for the city of Salem, Ore. The money was to come from the life savings that Carroll L. Moores, a Salem janitor, had left in trust for the purpose of erecting "a monument...in memory of early Oregon pioneers." The citizens of modern Salem, however, saw newspaper photographs of the sculpture and protested. The nude bronze figure was a far cry from the sunbonneted frontierswoman they had envisioned. Said a Salem housewife: "I would have a difficult time explaining...
Collector Carter's offer was accepted last month by the Pioneer Trust Co. of Salem, trustees of the janitor's es tate. Declared Museum Director Colt: "The perceptive journalism of a great magazine and the vision of a generous citizen combined to reaffirm my faith that great art will always call forth strong champions, who will prevail over confusion...
...Psychiatry, Dr. Peter A. Peffer, manager of the Perry Point, Md. Veterans Administration Hospital, told about a new "rehabilitation incentive" for mental patients: money. Peffer has carefully transferred partially cured psychiatric patients at his hospital to the status of "member employees.'' (Sample jobs: landscape worker, painter, janitor.) He found that a monthly paycheck for many patients is a valuable bridge between life in an institution and life in society outside, restores their self-esteem and greatly accelerates recovery...
Studying law at the University of Wisconsin, he got a job as janitor at the Christ Presbyterian Church in Madison. Its pastor was the Rev. George E. Hunt, a smoking and drinking, social-gospel liberal who was something new in young Leslie Bechtel's experience. Hunt took a liking to the earnest young janitor, and set out to prove that he could do more for humanity as a minister than as a lawyer. "One day he got me to agree to a debate," Bechtel remembers. "The topic was to be 'Where can you get more out of life...
...statue was to be erected in front of the new Marion County courthouse as a bequest from Carroll L. Moores, an obscure Salem janitor who died in 1938. Janitor Moores left his life's savings (chiefly real-estate holdings now worth $34,000) in trust for "a monument . . . in memory of early Oregon pioneers." Last year the trustee chose a committee (among its members: Director Thomas Colt of the Portland Art Museum, Pietro Belluschi, dean of architecture at M.I.T.), gave it free rein to find a suitable work. Renoir's Venus Victorieuse, the committee thought, was "universal...