Word: jephthah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spelled Jephthah in the King James version of the Bible...
...published by Oxford University Press, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 10, 1949), which was a collection of Old Testament narratives illustrated by Guy Rowe. He found the models for some of these faces in his favorite Manhattan restaurant. The tired face of the floor sweeper, for example, was his inspiration for Jephthah, the man who made the rash vow. For Adam, he used his own son Charles, and Guy himself posed before a mirror for David mourning Absalom...