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Since they lack a domestic program which appeals to the "great masses of citizens," Key said that the test of the Republican's strategy is whether they can "chisel down the Democratic following by flank attacks on the subsidiary issues--of communism, corruption, and foreign policy...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: Key Predicts Two-Party System in South; States GOP Lacks New Domestic Policy | 10/15/1952 | See Source »

...statuettes-of girls with geese, girls sitting, undressing, standing, kissing -line Denmark's parks and museums, grace its finest homes. All have Henning's trademark: heavy, flowering curves, and a warm, sleepy sense of relaxation. Two years ago Gerhard Henning, 70 and ill, put aside his chisel. Now that he was back at work again, more relaxed limestone girls will be following Recumbent Girl out of Henning's studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Flowering Curves | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Scalpel & Chisel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1952 | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...house it. To fill the 2½ kilometers of wall space they arranged a big retrospective of 19th and 20th century Italian art, asked Italy's 250 top painters and sculptors to send an average of four works apiece, issued a blanket invitation to every other brush and chisel wielder in Italy to try his luck with the show's jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dead or Alive | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Rock & Rye. In Pekin, 111., Tavern Owner Julius Barnes invited the jury to drinks on the house after it acquitted him of drunkenness, even though five cops swore that Barnes had taken one too many before he tried, with a hammer, chisel and ice tongs, to steal the old City Hall's 800-lb. cornerstone, which was rumored to contain a quart of 1884 whisky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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