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...covered his face. On his breast lay a jasper scarab with the inscription: "Do not betray me, O heart, on the day of judgment." Beside him, to aid him on his journey, were jeweled or golden images of his gods, and golden dishes, beautifully wrought. One dish showed a bas-relief of women swimming through lotus flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Among top contenders was Boston, which had flown handsome Governor Maurice J. Tobin, and other leaders, to London. At the State House, a bas-relief map of Greater Boston was ready for delegates; there was talk of using a blimp for reconnaissance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Buyer's Market | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...primitive, who painted fussy toy trains and muscular self-portraits. Nowadays the field is crowded with such deliberate amateurs as upstate New York's 85-year-old "Grandma" Moses (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) and fellow Brooklynite Morris Hirshfield, 73-year-old retired slipper manufacturer who paints nudes with bas-relief noses and lions with custom-tailored, button-on manes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brooklyn Primitive | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...church. Last week, with the backing of his parish, Monsignor Stephen turned up at the auction to bid against 100-odd hotel men, restaurateurs, other buyers. In addition to the bronze doors ($1,025), he acquired ten bronze plaques ($975), a bronze railing ($155), a cloisonné enamel bas-relief of a Norman knight ($380), and a bronze statue ($690) entitled "La Paix" (Peace). Slightly remodeled, "La Paix" will be enshrined in the church's square tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: From Normandie to Lebanon | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

There was also one ominous note. In the Rue d'Aboukir, the heart of Paris' Jewish business district, knots of former slave laborers from Germany raised the ugly Nazi cry: "A bas les Juifs!"-Down with the Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Home Again | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

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