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This year, for the second time, the editors chose a modern religious painting for the cover. The first, in 1938, was French-born Jean Chariot's Nativity. On this week's cover is The Gift by Fred Meyer, a young art teacher of Rochester, N.Y. who, like the other artists represented in the accompanying two color pages, has been increasingly concerned with religious...
Those who traveled less than Casanova embellished their drawing rooms with fragile fancies: a clock mounted on a chariot drawn along the mantelpiece by galloping gilt horses, or a monkey with a lorgnette in one hand and a tiny cigar in the other, smoking with bestial relish, or a dueling pistol which, with a pull of the trigger, released a tiny singing bird...
Around the track of Rome's great Foro Italico last week clattered three chariots, each drawn by two snorting, straining steeds. Whipping them on were charioteers dressed in loose, flowing robes. Everything was plausibly Old Roman save for one garish, modern note: on the side of each chariot was a sign advertising one of Rome's leading newspapers. It was the second annual chariot race sponsored by Rome's press club, for the love of history, sport and cheap advertising...
...press club paid for the chariots, the costumes and the winners' purses. Each chariot was also sponsored by a district of Rome, which furnished the driver, the horses and the cheering section. Young Carlo Gigli, representing the middle-class Flaminia district, was in the driver's stand of the blue-and-white chariot of the Christian Democratic newspaper La Liberta. Handling the whip of the bright red chariot sponsored by the Communist L'Unitá and the poverty-ridden San Lorenzo district was oldtimer Amedeo Valentini, who drove a chariot in the movie Ben Hur 25 years...
After three viewings, you may be able to remember that "Horsefeathers" is the one in which Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo careen through Huxley College in a garbage-wagon chariot, among other conveyances. In "Monkey Business' the Marx boys plague the captain, crew, and passengers of an ocean liner like four hyper-thyroid Nemeses. But plots count for nothing when the Marx Brothers are around. In fact, everything counts for nothing--except unending hysterical laughter--when the Marx Brothers are around...