Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 15 months, what started as a community project had grown into one of the most comprehensive exhibits of religious art ever gathered together in northern Europe. By last week, 300 art historians and archeologists had swarmed into town to buzz among the assembled treasures, argue learnedly over dates and artists. The Vatican sent photographers to take pictures. The Belgian periodical Sa-uoir et Beaute brought out a special number singing the glories of ancient Tournai...
Most of the work of Tournai's great years was unsigned, the loving labor of anonymous monks and artisans identity had been lost through the centuries. But a few big names survived for the town to boast about: Master Illuminator Jean de Tavernier and Tapestry-maker Pasquier Grenier, whose works, commissioned by the great lords of the 15th Century, are now treasured by the museums and libraries of Europe; Painters Roger van der Weyden, Robert Campin and Jacques Daret, whose realistic detail and rich color placed them in the vanguard of the great Flemish artists of the Renaissance...
...Church for Hickory. One of the bishop's most successful rural projects in his own diocese has been street preaching. In 36 counties of southwestern Missouri, some 70 of his priests are touring in pairs from town to town in any kind of car they can get, so long as it can be equipped with a loudspeaker. At each stopping place the travelers seek out the local priest and with him go to work on a street corner preaching, answering questions, passing out pamphlets. This project has been especially effective in reclaiming backsliders. As a result of one such...
...troubles had just begun. When he let his boys.& girls sit together, instead of keeping them on separate sides of the room, the bearded farmers of the valley grumbled that he was running "a courting school." When he went to call on the lady teacher in the next town ("pretty as a speckled pup," people had told him), the men & boys of her town ambushed him and bombarded him with rotten eggs...
Invitation to Suicide. Pennsylvania-born Hap Arnold hadn't planned to go to West Point in the first place. His older brother had the appointment and ditched it, but small-town Dr. Arnold was determined that one of his sons should become an officer. Hap was persuaded to pinch-hit, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant of infantry in 1907. When he saw Louis Bleriot's English Channel-hopping monoplane on exhibition in Paris in 1909, he didn't even know what the freakish contraption was. When he figured it out, his first.thought forecast the futures of both...