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Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see some of the irascible Italian's best work. Centered around the collection of his sketches and drawings belonging to the late Mrs. J. P. Morgan, the exhibit included some of the decorative drawings which influenced English Architect-Decorator Robert Adam. Sharp-eyed observers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vaults & Ruins | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Circle No. 2. The second circle of Miss West's inferno is that of the grotesques-those who were more developed but scarcely older than the children. Some were, like Kenneth Edward, merchant seamen. Some were British prisoners of war who went over to the Germans. Some had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Both had their origin in seeds exposed to X-rays in 1933 by Genetecist Ernest Brown Babcock of the University of California. The X-rays ionized-or "electrified"-the seeds' nuclei, kneading their chromosomes into unusual patterns which produced the two desirably abnormal plants* (as well as a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Flowers by X-Rays | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Britons felt most keenly the destruction of the Guildhall, medieval town hall of London where for six centuries the great and illustrious have been honored with pageantry and much of the history of the British Empire has been made. Within the charred shell of its Gothic walls black-faced workmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: After the Fire | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

When the Romanovs 'came to the throne 300 years ago they were "provincial nobodies." They managed, in their time, to produce three colossal figures (Alexander I, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great), one kind man (Alexander II, who freed the serfs, was killed by a bomb). The rest were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broad Russian Nature | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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