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...fresco soiree that was Hallowe'en isn't the funfest figured on by preadolescents, serious Cantabrigians concluded early yesterday morning. Harvard Square merchants, who have been dishing out much soft soap these past months, found the tables turned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Hallowe'en Fun Not So Funny | 11/2/1946 | See Source »

...Fabulous Forties, strapping but starry-eyed debutante daughter of the sports world's Terrific Twenties, and by the same sire, World War, will be given her official coming out party in a great al fresco soiree under the flood lights of the Yankee Stadium here tomorrow night. Bill Cunningham in the Boston Herald, June 19. ...Al fresco, ad infinitum, ad nauseam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 6/21/1946 | See Source »

Soon after the world's best-known painting was finished (1498), rumors got around that it had been painted not in tempera (egg-white base) but in oils. As the years passed, the huge fresco on the refectory wall of Milan's convent church, Santa Maria delle Grazie, mildewed, flaked and scaled. The experts, who kept trying to patch up the painting with secret preparations of glues and varnishes, did it almost as much damage as time and weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hardy Masterpiece | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

There are whole volumes on this subject." But this morning, when Koch saw across the room the black-clad figures of three widows of men he had tortured and sent to death, he suddenly became absorbed in studying a fresco of Sapienza (Wisdom) on the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Justice | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...deeply interested in people. His cables were filled with descriptions of the men he met-the soft-spoken Marine colonel known as "The Brute," the New Zealand major with a fresco of butterflies and birds tattooed on his chest, the scared troops aboard an assault ship with their faces smeared with green camouflage paint and softly singing as H-hour approached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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