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Slogan for the movement, headed by Dr. Elmer G. Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary, is "America for Christ." Combined with the Roman Catholic Holy Year, it may make 1950 the most religion-conscious twelvemonth the modern world has yet known...
...what he meant. Along with 24 others, they are full-page illustrations for the big (9 in. by 12 in.) book, In Our Image* edited by Harte and published this week. The 26 stories, told in the fine, measured English of the King James version, were chosen by 56-year-old Publisher Harte with the help of seven leading Protestant clergymen...
...illustrate the stories, Harte picked an intense, white-haired little artist named Guy Rowe. When 55-year-old Artist Rowe accepted the commission, he knew next to nothing about the inside of the Bible. For months before picking up a brush, he read and reread the Old Testament, steeping himself in its character and drama. Then he began a patient, persistent search-among his friends, in public places, on trains and planes-for the faces that would fit his conception of the prophets and kings of Israel. Only one picture was posed: his son and daughter-in-law became Adam...
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...
...artists named Maurer had shows in Manhattan. One was a 99-year-old curiosity, spruce and sprightly Louis Maurer, the last living Currier & Ives illustrator, whose traditional sporting prints and genre scenes had sold like hotcakes in the mid-19th Century. The other was slender, sad-eyed Alfred, his 62-year-old bachelor son, who painted hard-to-sell pictures of elongated, wistful shop girls and abstractions of heads and still lifes that were anything but traditional. Papa Maurer's show was a huge success to which son Alfy's was little more than a half-noticed footnote...