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Pain & Sorrow. His portraits were almost ruthless in their candor. He did not even try to conceal the pain that his neglect had caused his wife, or paint out the sadness imprinted on his children's faces (see color). In time the painting joined the collection of Basilius Ame-bach, whose wise and scholarly father, Bonifacius (see color), began rounding up Holbein canvases during the first convulsive years of the Reformation. After Basilius' death, the city and the university bought the Amerbach collection, which they own to this day. It is Basel's permanent tribute...
Many a prisoner hurls accusations from the dock, desperately tries to save himself by accusing others. Sometimes the accusations are truth. In Berlin last week one Basilius Sadathieraschvili, a citizen of the Soviet Republic of Georgia, sought to win the Court's mercy by pleading that he was only a small cog in a very big counterfeiting machine powered by the Soviet Government...
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