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...stating that tweedy Artist Biddie was "the first U.S. artist ever commissioned by a South American country to decorate public buildings." He reported to you - did he not - that Biddie and Helene Sarde.au were together commissioned to decorate the main lobby of the National Library with fresco and bronze bas-reliefs...
...oversight that Helene Sar-deau (Mrs. George Biddie) was not mentioned in TIME'S story. She should have been credited with her bas-reliefs, entitled Violence and Charity. One depicted a brute strangling another brute; the other, figures with outstretched hands succoring a dying comrade. But let Mr. Biddie be advised that TIME does not intentionally misquote anything. Furthermore on the rare occasions when TIME undertakes to quote a correspondent, its readers are so advised...
Because of the openness of the French countryside and the strength of the German occupation forces, French partisans have not yet engaged in major operations. But with their slogan, "A bas les Boches," they have been responsible...
...these thumping accomplishments Rogers Hornsby, greatest right-handed hitter the game has ever known, was last week elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. In a little red-brick shrine at Cooperstown, N.Y., his square-jawed face, in bas-relief on a bronze plaque, will be hung alongside those of 26 other Immortals previously chosen...
...1515upremum Vale. Death masks were made of every person brought in. Numbered, indexed and neatly mounted on the studio wall, they served as the morgue's photographic file. Profoundly moved by some of these faces, Artist Chiapasco modeled from them his ambitious works. He lined a corridor with bas-reliefs of Pain, Destiny, Love, Will Power, Desire, the faces of which all came from death masks. Sculptor Chiapasco's favorites were the models of the ecstatic features of a Japanese who had committed harakiri, the utter despair on the face of a woman murdered by her husband...