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Last week La Gioconda's, smile was for a time in danger of disappearing forever. Fire broke out in some wooden scaffolding in the Pavilion de la Trémoille, where hang priceless Rubens and Rembrandt. The Mona Lisa was only 20 feet from the blaze. Workmen carried pictures hurriedly out of the room, covered others with canvas so they would not be damaged by firemen's hoses. When the excitement was over, not a single picture had been damaged. La Gioconda smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jocund Lady | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

This enthusiastic group made up in volume what it lacked in practice and wound up in a blaze of glory on "Fair Harvard which even brought admiring Radcliffites to their feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Throng Greets Glee Club at Second Open Air Widener Concert | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

Midnight snackers in the Hayes-Bickford lunch last night were sent scurrying for shelter when an explosion in the kitchen rocked the building. Soon a fire developed, bringing a swarm of fire engines to the scene only to find a meagre blaze which was soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE DISTURBS NIGHT CALM ON MASS. AVENUE | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...bother to aim your guns because it won't do any good; just blaze away" was the order given to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War, asserted Charles T. Haven in the Upper Common Room of the Union last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAVEN EXPLAINS HOW BULLET WAS ANCESTOR OF CURVE BALL | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...capital. The house, placed at Trotsky's disposal by the wife of Mexico's Trotskyist painter, Diego Rivera, is elaborately wired to sound warnings of intruders. At night it stands out like a three-alarm fire in dim-lit, sleepy Coyoacán as floodlights blaze on the pastel blue walls. Trotsky's three secretaries carry pistols, practice target shooting in their spare moments. The Great Exile himself parks a big revolver on his desk as a paper weight whenever he sits down to write. Small, white-haired Mrs. Trotsky goes about her housework packing a Webley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stalin's Mafia | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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