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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bible still holds its long-undisputed place at the top of the bestseller list, but to a vast proportion of its modern buyers, it remains a closed book. Texas newspaper Publisher Houston Harte (the San Angelo evening Standard and Standard-Times) often wondered why, especially considering that the Bible is full of dramatic stories and fascinating characters. When Presbyterian Harte asked his friends & neighbors, they agreed that biblical characters are awe-inspiring, all right, but that somehow they are just not like people in real life. Bible-Lover Harte began to think about how to make them more...
With a resounding pop, Italy blew off the lid that Mussolini had clamped on modern sculpture more than a score of years ago. At Varese, in the first all-Italian sculpture competitions in many a year, top honors went to a thin-faced, little-known Venetian named Alberto Viani for one of his highly abstract nudes...
...Dear Friend and Gentle Hearts." With these last scribbled words of Stephen Foster* as a salutation, Fulton Oursler, onetime professional magician, veteran magazine editor and top writer of mysteries and a bestselling religious book (The Greatest Story Ever Told), last week began a syndicated column which big city newspapers were playing like an important story. The point of Oursler's first weekly column was that the Christian spirit has temporal rewards...
...Top News. Except at Easter and Christmas, most newspapers have generally kept religion stories on the "church news" page, a dull collection of building-fund reports, warmed-over sermons and church-supper notes surrounded by profitable church ads. These pages sound the same week after week, bore editors as much as they do most readers. But last Easter, editors who ran Oursler's Greatest Story got a surprise; readers were so interested that circulation jumped 5,000 to 10,000 on several papers. The Chicago Daily News started the Greatest Story on Page One, kept it there under news...
...capitalize on the "religious trend," the syndicates serialized the Peale and Sheen books, found readers still calling for more. Some papers, e.g., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, were planning to run one of the new columns in a top spot on Page One. Said Executive Editor Basil L. ("Stuffy") Walters of the Chicago Daily News last week: "People would have laughed you out of town if you had run that kind of stuff...