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...marble baby dimpling among the dried-up plants on the Manhattan art dealer's window sill was badly in need of a bath. But to Dr. Walter Heil, director of San Francisco's De Young Memorial Museum, his happy face and grimy little body had a familiar look. Andrea del Verrocchio,* Renaissance goldsmith, painter and sculptor, had carved some other youngsters very like...
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...
...dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flame above Lakehurst, N.J., the announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich; the hysterical scream of Hitler, punctuated by the thunder of his Storm Troopers' "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"; the uninflected, almost casual voice of Joseph Stalin promising death to the invading Nazis, and the stentorian challenge of Churchill, rallying his little island against a continent...
...Quarter. Politicians and lobbyists are Evjue's prime targets. The Times keeps a detective's eye on all officials in the state, and regularly prints box scores of legislative votes. Evjue harried Republican Governor Julius Heil out of office in 1942 by publishing a daily record of his absenteeism ("He's In," "He's Out"). Wisconsin has even coined the word "ev-juing" to describe the whip-smarting way he lays into an errant governor, legislator or dogcatcher...