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Apples on the Desk. In World War II, Fanfani escaped Mussolini's draft by fleeing to Switzerland, where (together with Italian President Luigi Einaudi) he taught Italian students in internment camps. Ambitious, aggressive and a disciplinarian (he says he believes in authority, efficiency, and the Sermon on the Mount), Fanfani after the war, took on a succession of ministries under Premier Alcide de Gasperi. As Minister of Labor, he developed the "Fanfani house" program which so far has produced more than 7,700 government-built workers' homes; he put 200,000 of Italy's many unemployed...
...express their religious faith. On this and the following page are recent works by two such skilled and devout moderns. The mosaic Station of the Cross (above] was done for Mt. Angel Abbey at St. Benedict, Ore. by a 55-year-old Californian named Louisa Jenkins. The stained-glass Sermon from the Boat (overleaf) is a replica detail of a window in St. Ann's Chapel of Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., designed by School-of-Paris Painter Andre Girard...
André Girard studied with two French masters, Georges Rouault and Pierre Bonnard, and his glowing darks and sparkling lights show the influence of both. Girard, who has experimented with many new techniques of stained-glass design, melted bits of colored glass onto clear panes in making his Sermon from the Boat. Rich in color and texture, the finished window seems to radiate devotion...
Methodist Bishop of the Washington area G. Bromley Oxnam will deliver tomorrow morning's sermon at Memorial Church. Services begin...
...delegates of the Oxford University Press in 1755, he took one look at the record and flew into a rage. The learned press, said he, is "languishing in a lazy obscurity, and barely reminding us of its existence, by now and then slowly bringing forth a Program, a Sermon printed by request, or at best a Bodleian Catalogue." Sir William's blast had its effect. The world has rarely since had to be reminded of the existence of the Press, which today is the world's most prodigious book publisher...