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...first planned two units: a basement church with separate altar; a nave proper on the street level with a high altar surrounded by balconies. But the church fathers objected. The balconies would make the church too much like a cinema palace. The scheme was abandoned. Last week those at the dedication viewed and approved Architect Meier's final effort...
Pinkerton detectives guarding Manhattan's practically completed Riverside Church last week straightened to attention, craftsmen made a show of their slow assiduity, as a small, stocky, energetic, bushy-haired, suntanned man-Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick-walked with authoritative curiosity through the church nave and accessory rooms. A small group attended him on this his first inspection of the church since his regular summer vacation on Mouse Island in Boothbay Harbor, Me., "where a man can put on a flannel shirt in the morning and go to bed in it at night if he feels like it." The church...
...followers pointed out the details of the interior: ten enormous stained glass aisle windows softening the sight of his stone pulpit, reading stand and chancel screen; the 1,408 seats in the nave, some equipped with electrical earphone connections, and only 100 blocked by pillars from view of the pulpit; 'the two galleries at one end of the nave and the triforium galleries (seating 1,000) between the pillars and the clerestory windows, reached by four quiet elevators...
...inherently Roman Catholic symbolism. Whatever the Scriptures suggested to Riverside iconographers, that they designed. Thus the chapel reredos is dominated by a massive cross. Above its crossbar is the hand of the Father and the dove of the Holy Spirit and, carved small, the cruciform Son. However, the nave door of the chapel portrays the Nativity, without using the motif of Virgin & Child...
...service, comfortably suffering from an imaginary ailment in the comparatively restful infirmary. Mobilization cured him. Sent to Rheims as part of a convoy to a supply train, he and a comrade managed to slip by the sentries into the Cathedral. Soon German shells began to burst in the ruined nave. Said his comrade: "It's not that I'm afraid, you understand, but I hate loud noises." On his return to Paris, Hero 'T' became successively clerk, bicyclist, male nurse; was often in trouble, sometimes in the guardhouse, oftener in the infirmary or some soft job. Says Author Deval...