Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beck, Germany, 500 spectators crowded into a local courtroom last week for the end of one of the most spectacular trials the town had ever seen. Star performer was Lothar Malskat, 41, the accomplished art forger who confessed that he and his accomplice Dietrich Fey had faked the murals in Lübeck's medieval St. Mary's Church (TIME, Oct. 27,1952). In his rush to put himself and partner in jail, Forger Malskat seemed determined to involve Lübeck's most respected burghers and much of the German art world as well...
...Magic Eye. Even getting arrested had been an ordeal, Malskat testified. No one wanted to believe him, and for good reason. The recent 700th anniversary of Lübeck's St. Mary's, centered around the "restored" church murals, had been the civic event of a generation, attended by Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and celebrated, with 2,000,000 special anniversary stamps showing a detail from Malskat's forged work. Lübeck winced as Malskat described how he had blithely gone about his work, perched on top of a 90-ft. scaffold inside...
...court. A student, basing her doctor's thesis on the murals, wrote: "The splendid figure of Mary bears the brush marks of Gothic genius." When the forgery was revealed, the student indignantly pointed out that they were still remarkably like the Gothic murals in the Lübeck Holy Ghost Hospital. Explained Malskat: "I also painted those...
...Delicate Decision. Malskat's testimony soon brought other reputations tumbling down. The red-faced church superintendent asked to be retired. Lübeck's art director suddenly decided to move to Germany's East Zone. His assistant was abruptly pensioned...
Game of Love (Franco-London; Times Film Corp.) is a good little French picture based on a 1923 novel by Colette called Le Blé en Herbe. The typically Colettish plot: a 16-year-old boy named Phil (Pierre-Michel Beck) and his mother share a summer home on the Brittany beach with 15-year-old Vinca (Nicole Berger) and her family. The coltish youngsters love their summer lives, although, as they emerge from childhood, they begin to feel the prickly pain of petty jealousies. Into Phil's, life there comes a mature woman (Edwige Feuill...