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...front room of a sprawling, neo-Tudor house in the English village of Burgess Hill one night last week, a husky young man & woman from the Soviet zone of Germany, a coffee-skinned youth from India, a trim girl from Finland and a swarthy boy from France were hard at work studying the Bible. In the chapel at the rear of the house, a music class was in progress; a Berliner was at the piano, an English girl played the viola; a boy from Silesia whittled away at the violin. In a small side room a pink-cheeked Yugoslav...
Guest of honor at a Manhattan exhibition of her late husband's pompadoured beauties: Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, 77. Dressed in a trim dark suit draped with orchids, the "Original Gibson Girl" posed before a portrait drawn of her half a century...
...hunch he had four years ago. His hunch: that Protestants of all denominations in the Canadian pulp & paper mill town of Marathon (present pop. 2,000) could worship together amicably in one church. Last week the wager looked as secure as Mr. Barrow's trim white clapboard Holy Trinity Church in Marathon. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, members of the United Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Salvation Army were joined into one devout congregation, celebrating together the payment of the first $15,000 installment on the church mortgage...
...trim, tanned suburbanite of 60, Barrie divides his holidays between golf and art. He shoots in the low 80s, paints less well. His innumerable strokes of smudgy pigment often land him in the rough. But, in welcome contrast to most contemporary art, his paintings are unpretentious and done with obvious enjoyment...
Before he died early this year, Orwell was working on a collection of his essays. Shooting an Elephant, the portion he completed, is a trim little book of autobiographical reminiscence, literary criticism and incidental journalism. It has all the customary Orwell virtues: humor, moderation, intelligence. Though one of his minor works, it reinforces the impression left by Nineteen Eighty-Four-that Orwell was one of the few genuinely important writers of these times...