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...current exhibition at the Germanic Museum consists of works by the great German impressionist, Levis Corinth. Corinth, along with Slevogt and Liebermann, led the revolt in Germany against aenemic classicism and romanticism of late nineteenth century German academic painting...
Greece. The city of Corinth, 1½ miles from the Gulf of Corinth, was a flourishing trade centre as early as the 6th Century B. C. It suffered spoliation at the hands of the Romans, recovered prosperity when Julius Caesar re-peopled it with Italian freedmen. Since 1896 the American School of Classical Studies has been digging on the site. Last season the School's director, Richard Stillwell of Princeton, reported excavation of a building which was evidently the headquarters of a great banking & shipping union. Elaborate mosaic floors were found intact, one depicting a female figure astride a Triton, accompanied...
...greatest air race. What pleased them greatly was that in second place was a U. S. transport plane powered by U. S. engines; that not far behind, roaring over Australia, was another U. S. transport plane flown by U. S. Pilot Roscoe Turner. Mrs. Aquilla Derryberry Turner of Corinth, Miss, did not raise her boy Roscoe to be a flyer...
...balloon observer, came out a first lieutenant. After the War Roscoe Turner became a lion-tamer in a circus, later a barnstorming j stunt pilot, wing-walker and parachute-jumper. He toured the country advertising Curlee Clothing Co. of St. Louis and, in 1924, married a dark-haired, pretty Corinth girl named Carline Stovall...
...nations who traded with her. Another prize was a broad-browed, calm-eyed marble bust of Augustus, first Roman Emperor, intact except for the tip of the nose. Still another was a Mycenaean sepulchre containing a "very unusual" gold signet ring and three skeletons. On the site of old Corinth, Princeton's Professor Richard Stillwell was excited when he uncovered a mosaic floor 31 by 24 ft., laid by Romans of the empire period. Its central panel depicted a palm-bearing athlete and a seated figure of Eutychia. In the nearby temple of Aesculapius, Patron of Healing, Professor Stillwell...