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...unknown to the outside world. There was a child Jesus sitting with a crown of thorns in his lap, a warmly devout Santa Eufemia, and The Holy Family clustered around a bowl of fruit. Among other outstanding works in the show: a solemn Santa Lucia and a prayerful, intent Fray Geronimo Perez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: King of Painters | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

What, then, made the Chinese take the risk? "By one process or another it was conjectured by, or conveyed to the Red Chinese that, even though they entered the fray in large force, it would be under the sanctuary of being relieved from any destructive action of our military forces within their own area." MacArthur's order to destroy the Yalu bridges over which the Chinese were pouring "was immediately countermanded from Washington. Such a limitation ... has no precedent either in our own history or, so far as I know, in the history of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: For History & Leverage | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Dragon's Break. Entering the chamber during a debate on denationalization of truck transport, Churchill heard Acting Opposition Leader Herbert Morrison saying: "There is no hurry about this bill; in fact, it would be a good thing if it were never passed at all." Churchill rose to the fray. Standing with his feet apart, dimpled hands on the dispatch box, his face flushed a winy pink, he said: "The Right Hon. Gentleman is a master of the art of trying to have it all ways at once." His next words were almost lost in the din of angry voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sir Winston & the Dragons | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...Hope You Choke." "The noise in here drives you bugs after a while," said his co-worker Salvatore Recupero, "but he never come off his machine to talk to anybody. He was a bandit for work." But along about last Christmas, Peter Akulonis' inner fiber began to fray and shrivel under the pressures and strains of life. At lunch he sat apart, alone and unhappy. When a friend bought a new car, he asked: "How can you afford that when I drive a pile of junk? All I do is work and go home. . . I'm not getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Good Man | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...without a fight-a pitiful handful of his old friends battled the policemen, and 16 men were killed in the brutal little fray. As rifles barked, an old, grey circus horse that belonged to Sitting Bull pirouetted, postured and then sat down gravely near the chief's cabin and raised one hoof, apparently under the impression that it was back under the big top. After these Chekhovian obsequies. Sitting Bull's body was carted to Fort Yates, N.Dak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Sioux Victory | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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