Word: heil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Julius Peter ("the Just") Heil, 73, Wisconsin's chunky, ungrammatical onetime Governor (1939-42) and millionaire metal-products manufacturer; of a heart attack; in a hunting lodge near Sullivan...
After long reflection, Director Heil bought the boy (for a price he regards as his secret) and took him home for a good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...
...Heil had little trouble convincing most fellow connoisseurs that it was a genuine Verrocchio, and that it belonged in the all-too-short catalogue of the 15th Century master's works. He proudly put the sculpture on display in his San Francisco museum...
Last week Heil had another feather in his discoverer's cap. Florence, which in recent months has been sending its art treasures to the U.S. for display (TIME, Feb. 7), wanted to borrow the wandering Florentine boy for an exhibition in the Museum of the Bargello this spring...
Postwar World. In Munich, Germany, zoo officials announced that the parrot which shrieks "Heil Hitler!" has been suffering from an inferiority complex since it was joined by one which screams "Buy American...