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Like most contemporary primitives, Litwak is a far less sophisticated artist than the Cro-Magnon whose paintings, the earliest known, were found in a cave at Altamira,. Spain. The caveman's graceful, seemingly off-hand study of a charging bison was obviously true to life but Litwak's view of the Metropolitan Museum (see cut) is just as obviously a cockeyed, childlike impression, painted with the cramped, awkward care of an adult artisan. Explains Artist Litwak, whose colors are as hot and heavy as a fur coat in June: "I must have everything correct, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brooklyn Primitive | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Yenan's loess cave dwellings were rapidly emptying. For the second time in a decade, China's Communists were shifting their center of political gravity. In 1934-35 they had staged their famed Long March of 8,500 miles from Central China to the remote Northwest; of 100,000 marchers an exhausted 20,000 survived to set up headquarters at Yenan. Now, more powerful than ever, the Communists were heading north and east to Kalgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Short March | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...Serbia's big brother, Russia, intrigued against Serbia's new ruler. In 1817 Black George was murdered while asleep in a cave, his head sent as a trophy to Constantinople...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Pigs to Books | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...would hardly recognize their hellish beachhead nowadays. Eight thousand Seabees under Commodore Robert Johnson have built some of the world's longest runways, moved four million cubic yards of earth and even sliced the top off Mt. Suribachi. A Japanese major who recently came out of a cave blinked around and paid the Seabees the ultimate tribute. Said he: "Impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Beautiful Iwo | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Craft went along the crest, hurling grenades into foxholes and trenches. Japs popped up to fire at him; Craft pitched a hand grenade first. Japs tried to charge him with bayonets and spears. Craft shot them with his M-t rifle. He hurled a satchel charge into a cave. lt had a defective fuse and failed to explode. Craft walked up, retrieved the charge, fixed the fuse and hurled it in again. That time it sealed the cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Hero of Hen Hill | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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