Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into the Pattern." For 48 hours the West weltered in the confusion of factlessness: the air waves and the news columns were splashed with words like "purge" and "shake-up." Molotov had been ousted. Vishinsky was Stalin's newest fair-haired boy. What it all meant was a tougher Soviet policy toward the West. On the other hand, what it really meant was a genuine peace move. The North Atlantic pact was a factor. The airlift was a factor. Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn...
...Correspondent Morley Cassidy of the Philadelphia Bulletin reported last week from Stockholm: "It is beginning to seem awfully lonesome up here on the Baltic. Fingering its boy scout knife, Sweden is noticing that the woods all of a sudden seem to be getting terribly dark...
After five years, with the help of the scriptures and horoscopes, they were led to a shepherd's family on the grassy upland meadows not far from Naribanchin itself. There they found what they had been searching for-a five-year-old boy said to have been born on the very day and at the very hour of the old hutukhtu's death. That was the beginning of the new hutukhtu's education and travels...
After long reflection, Director Heil bought the boy (for a price he regards as his secret) and took him home for a good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...
Last week Heil had another feather in his discoverer's cap. Florence, which in recent months has been sending its art treasures to the U.S. for display (TIME, Feb. 7), wanted to borrow the wandering Florentine boy for an exhibition in the Museum of the Bargello this spring...