Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Religion: Wanted: the American Smile
Dr. Hubert Eaton, 70, director of California's Forest Lawn Cemetery, is a cheerful man. In his credo, inscribed on a tablet at Forest Lawn, he has written: "I believe, most of all, in a Christ that smiles and loves you and me." The sunny decor of Forest Lawn— "the bright and cheerful private slumber rooms ... the beautiful vistas of green lawns and tall trees"—reinforces the theology.* But Dr. (honorary LL.D.) Eaton, who has already stocked his cemetery with a trove of religious paintings and statuary (including a replica of Michelangelo's David, with fig leaf added), has not found a picture...
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