Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although she is as spry and sparkling-eyed as ever ("I feel as young as a child"), Landowska has given up touring. In the last few years, she has also given up the idea of returning to her once-famed Ecole de Musique Ancienne at picturesque Saint-Leu-La-Forêt near Paris, from which she fled in 1940 before the Nazis took over...
...About Town. Eventually, said Roswell's Record, "the home town of Hurd will have the greatest collection of Hurd productions in the country. A generation from now, young persons will view his work and be told that the man who painted the pictures was one time a kid about town the same as they...
...studio (last week it was pictures of Picasso's ceramics), says that he has "no quarrel with any school of painting." At 45, he describes himself as "looking inside, trying to be clear as to what I want to say. There are a lot of young painters coming along now that seem to have no idea about that. They either feel they must paint every hair on nature's lip or deny the whole works...
...Young Pierre Couturier, son of the miller of Montbrison in the Loire valley, hoped to be a great painter some day. But after World War I, in which he was wounded, he found a new enthusiasm growing within him; he began to spend more & more time wandering through Paris churches and reading the religious works of Léon Bloy and Paul Claudel. At last he made his decision. In 1925, at the age of 27, Pierre Couturier put away his brushes and became a Dominican monk...
When she was a little girl, Vermont-born Emma Shipman saw some of her ailing relatives restored to health with the help of Christian Science healing. It was not very long before young Emma Shipman had made up her mind to give up Congregationalism and join Christian Science's Mother Church in Boston...