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...Sculptor Milles still does not believe in death. He is sure that life goes on, and his belief was never stronger than in the massive work he will unveil next week. It is a huge, $250,000 Fountain of Faith for the National Memorial Park cemetery which he has been shaping for twelve years (TIME, July 19, 1948). Milles has made it his own idea of heaven, has done each of the 38 figures with a loving hand; magnificently supple men & women, joyous children playing games, a family bowed in prayer, an old philosopher, two lovely sisters, a father with...
Milles made his way around his fountain, stopping before each group. "Each one of these figures," he said, "is someone I have known. The last figure I made is the mother holding her child in the air. They both died at the child's birth. The old man leaning down to touch his dogs lived in a cave in France. He wanted no part of civilization. He killed his dogs before he died. The group of father, daughter and son is a French family killed in an automobile accident. Here is a wife with her husband following...
...morning last week, at Luxembourg's City Hall (the Jews had refused to go to Germany), German State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Walter Hallstein smilingly handed Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett a golden fountain pen. Sharett bent over the reparations documents, and in the silence the scratch of the pen was heard through the room. But the pen made no mark: its ink had run dry. Stiffly, Sharett signed with his own pen. The other signers: Adenauer, and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, representing 23 Jewish organizations outside Israel...
...high grades. She got them. She also alternated between living like a hermit and making a public show of herself. Sometimes she would wait until the rest of the dormitory was asleep before she would take a bath. But once, she took a bath in the library fountain and rolled herself dry on the grass. She got away with that one. But when she was caught smoking a cigarette (her first), she was suspended, briefly...
...gibbet has long since given way to a graceful fountain, but Pizarro's spirit still inhabits the Plaza de Armas. His mummy, bones protruding through dark yellow skin, lies in a glass case in the cathedral. Lima's charter, kept in the city hall, shows the double loop the illiterate conqueror used as a signature. The fig tree he planted at the palace still lives. In 1935, there was added a 22-foot statue of Pizarro on horseback, which dominated the plaza from a lofty pedestal rising out of the cathedral's steps...