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...Birds. Just as in Holland, where Hals and Rembrandt painted citizen companies of harquebusiers, Polish burghers formed shooting fraternities. Their aim was to defend their city walls; more often they were social militias. Their targets were wooden birds atop staffs, a custom recalled in the Cracow fraternity's emblem, which was the gift of Sigismund Augustus in 1565, with its silver cock resplendent in royal crown and symbolically attached by a chain to its perch. Poland has been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient traditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: The Grand Allegiance | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...quite-it's the emblem of the Paris cooking school she helps run, L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...sign up as many subscribers as possible. At month's end, it will start distributing 100,000 copies to another group of potential purchasers. Then it will follow up with a big promotion campaign, including salesmen decked out in green blazers adorned with the paper's emblem-a blazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Youthful Dreams on Long Island | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Outlines of the figure are buried in a subdued brownish-black background, yet gilt buttons streak like dim lights to shape his presence. An elbow clad in rich brocade is flattened almost like a chivalric emblem of elegance, while the face gazes out with insolent indifference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Uncle Behind the Laughter | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...stately, rich in emblem and the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Quest for Camelot | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

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