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...must congratulate TIME, Oct. 14, on "A Masterpiece Come Home." It is refreshing to read such articles about the finer things of life; and the triptych of the famed Cracow Altar by Wit Stwosz, or Veit Stoss if you prefer, is certainly one of the finest. The beautiful illustration that accompanied the article clearly proves this. However the article refers to the sculptor as a German while Stoss was definitely a Pole...
...says one young copilot, "only worse.") As Klaxon horns blared harshly and insistently through the sun-dried air, the combat crews dropped what they were doing and piled into their jeeps. (One coveralled pilot got notice of the alert when the warning light went on over the Catholic chapel altar, where he was at prayer.) Down premarked roadways they headed for their planes, where ground crews were already at work. Methodically they went down their take-off check lists (the long preflight checks had been done hours before, were done anew daily) and got ready to take off with...
...Altar Boy. McNulty had an ear like a hard neighborhood cop for the giveaway phrase. Describing one of his sad quirky little pub characters, a man called The Slugger, he wrote: "He looked like a guy that was maybe a small altar boy and fell into bad company for thirty-four years...
McNulty, himself an ex-altar boy (at St. Mary's, Lawrence, Mass.) fell into no better company than his own. He was a man much loved by newspapermen, horse-players, bartenders, dogs, writers, children and other odd characters who knew him. He had the weaknesses of his subject matter, but like the work of his own "sour-beer artist" (see glossary) his apparently sloppy words came out in (crystal. Unfortunately, the total recall of irrelevant detail which is wonderful in the saloon anecdotes is a bit of a bore in McNulty's journalistic pieces. Irish writers like McNulty...
...below, entered the subsurface grave, the shrine had been altered almost beyond recognition: the two upper niches had been combined to form the present Niche of the Pallia, two small chapels, the Covered and Open Confessio, had been added, and the whole shrine was encased by the present high altar...