Word: alma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some respectful and some grinning, the visitors crowded around two paintings, Millet's Sower (lent by the Provident Trust Co.) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Reading from Homer. A few of the oldest and boldest confessed that Millet and Alma-Tadema still looked great to them...
Could modern art ever mean so much to so many as Millet or Alma-Tadema had? Museum Director Fiske Kimball was not taking any bets. But in a thoughtful foreword to the show he pointed out that the art of the snob of today is often that of the minority of tomorrow and the majority of the day after tomorrow: "The public, which doesn't know much about art but 'knows what it likes,' actually likes what it knows...
Fundamentalist ecstasy and hallelujah-shouting were a vital part of masterful, deep-voiced Alma White's faith. On it she built a sect called Pillar of Fire-with 4,000 followers, 61 churches, seven schools, ten periodicals and two broadcasting stations. Last week, as it must even to "the only woman bishop in the world," Death came to the Pillar of Fire's 84-year-old founder...
...when he was discharged from the U.S. Army last November, Davis forswore his native Columbus, Ohio, rushed back to Stoke, got a job as a biscuit salesman. He married his wartime sweetheart, 19-year-old Alma Taylor, and prepared to settle down to life in the crammed streets behind curtains only fortnightly white. He even wanted to become a subject of the King. But Britain's Home Office was not looking for immigrants. It declared that Davis was using up needed food and clothing, and ordered him to leave the realm...
...four chances cleanly, and was charged with one error. A member of the recently deactivated NROTC program, Swegan will not take part in the second game of the Yale series, scheduled for New Haven on June 24. It is expected that he will soon return to his pre-service alma mater, Bowling Green...