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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...St. Mary...
Last week New Yorkers who were willing to make the trip down to 175 Canal St. and up four flights of stairs had a chance to note the effect of the Sino-Japanese war upon the minds of American-born Chinese children aged 4 to 16. The children's first National Art Exhibition, staged by the alert four-year-old Chinese Art Club, had gathered 550 drawings and paintings from every part of the country, including Honolulu...
...moldy traditionalist is Father James J. A. Troy, Wartime army chaplain, who took over the new and churchless St. Austin's parish in Minneapolis two years ago. He had already built five smalltown, debt-free churches in Iowa, some unconventional but none radically modern. This time he wanted a church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm...
...mass suggested by the main rural exposition building at Brno, Czecho-Slovakia, St. Austin's was designed as a simple parabolic vault with the parish house springing out at right angles from the apse. As simple and logical inside as out, the church's altar of native Kasota stone is focused by radiating rustication. The auditorium's only gadget is useful: a glass enclosed gallery where mothers may sit with infants likely to cry. Dedicated three weeks ago, St. Austin's design has done nothing but please its congregation...
...Other heights: Statue of Liberty, 151 feet; Christ the Redeemer (on Mt. Corcovado near Rio de Janeiro), 130 feet. Projected: San Francisco's St. Francis, 180 feet; Lenin (atop the Palace of the Soviets, Moscow), about 328 feet...