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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After losing his first fortune (earned as a reorganization lawyer) in the crash, Rosenberg made a second fortune from law, then turned to philanthropy. Now an 84-year-old gentleman-of-action, Rosenberg still sings out loud and clear for good causes of all kinds. Passionately devoted to his people...
MONTSERRAT, "the Saw-Toothed Mountain," is one of the holiest places in the shrine-rich Mediterranean world. Rising in sheer purple splendor above the plain 30 miles inland from Barcelona, Spain, the mountain is topped with spires of steeple-like rock. And there, inside the crown, perches an ancient fortress...
But of all the thousands who visit Montserrat, only a handful of men (women are forbidden) is allowed to penetrate the monastery cloister, where a splendid art collection has been formed in the Virgin's honor. Among the hidden masterpieces on the cloister walls, Caravaggio's St. Jerome...
Before his early death in 1609, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted no fewer than three St. Jeromes. The most renowned version is in Rome's Villa Borghese, but the best-done from the same model-may well be Montserrat's. The Montserrat canvas shows the saint in repose...
The 10,000-meter run is a slow, not very popular race, a dogged, grinding test of endurance that usually sends the track fans ambling out for hot dogs. But not last week, when the best U.S. team ever assembled met the best from Soviet Russia at Philadelphia's...