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...sermon. The rotting fish atop the head in the center of the picture, says Editor Barnouw, represented the Church of Rome, which Bruegel considered viciously corrupt. The half-submerged head itself was the Christian world, its mouth on fire, and in the background floated a menacing turretful of Turks. Hermit Saint Anthony turns his back on the nightmare. Ignoring the crossbowman above him, he takes comfort in the psalm: "In the Lord put I my trust . . . for lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string...
...heroes of Moscow's history-Moscow's people who lived between the heights of cathedrals and citadels. But history sums up Moscow's 800 years not by telling of the peoples anonymous pageant, but by chronicling the rise of their rulers. The pageant started with a hermit called Bukal who lived in the midst of a thick morass by the banks of the Moskva River, where the Kremlin stands today...
...Masters. Just 800 years ago, the hermit's peace was disturbed. The region at that time was under the dominion of a boyar called Stephen Ivanovich Kuchko who had a pretty wife. A neighboring prince, one Yuri Dolgoruki (meaning Long-Arm),*quarreled with the boyar because (at least according to one version) he wanted Kuchko's wife. Long-Arm seized Kuchko's domains, threw a bang-up banquet on what later became Kremlin hill, and decided that this spot-with its roads and rivers crossing in all directions -would be a good place for a town...
Death Revealed. Langley Collyer, 61, shy Harlem hermit; of asphyxiation, under a pile of debris ten feet from the spot where the body of his blind brother was discovered 17 days earlier (TIME, April 7); in Manhattan. Death came to the recluse, police decided, when he hit a tripwire to one of the booby traps he kept in his rotting mansion to trap thieves, causing a pile of hoarded junk to fall and smother...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, willowy wife of Britain's Ambassador to France and once "The Most Beautiful Woman in England," was right in there with Greta Garbo, who got left $20,000 by a hermit last month. Lady Diana was left a fortune by a lovelorn Spanish grandee who had set eyes on her only twice. Big-nosed, big-mustached Count Manuel Antonio de Luzarraga saw her at a London ball more than 20 years ago; 15 years later he saw her again on the street. He had brightened the years between by writing her anonymous love letters. Scotland...