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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...