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Angel is the upper lefthand corner of what must have been an "Annunciation"-perhaps to the shepherds of Bethlehem. Scholars guess that Van Leyden painted it about 1508, when he was 14 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PUBLIC FAVORITE | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

This ten-year-old baseball captain had the same problem that plagued many of his elders: he needed a good lefthand pitcher, a hot infielder and a power hitter. In Denver, or anywhere else, such a trio is hard to find. But suddenly the captain's furrowed brow unfurrowed, and he snapped his fingers. His neighbor, "Al" Hessel, aged 9, could pitch, field and bat with the best of his teammates. Al was the triple threat he was looking for. There was only one drawback: Al was a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One of the Boys | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...right inside, dribbled through the Harvard defense and booted a low hard kick which seemed to be aimed wide of the goal. Center forward Tom Hopkins managed to get a foot in the path of the ball and deflected it just enough to send it high into the lefthand corner of the nets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Soccer Team Loses, 1-0 | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...Secretary, Head Forest Ranger Bill Augustine had had his men tidy a weatherbeaten five-room log cabin on Mt. Storm King in Olympic National Park, the "last big woods" in the U.S., at the extreme upper-lefthand corner of the map. Harold Ickes pulled on a pair of the most unpressed trousers the natives had ever seen, an old grey sweater, a pair of scuffed brown oxfords, and opened his shirt-collar. His young red-haired wife, Jane (Dahlman), changed to tight-fitting blue cowboy dungarees, jodhpur boots, a tan wool jacket. Safe at home, 3,000 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Nobody's Sweetheart | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...Governor and Council to Sit at; things being thus prepared, The Governor Ordered the Library Keeper to carry down (under his right arm) The College Charter, Books of Record and Laws and the Seal upon them; He ordered the Buttler to carry down the Keys in his Lefthand; then the Governor took Mr. Leverett by the Hand. Led him out of the Library (after the books and Keys) down into the Hall, where, the Books, Seal Keys were laid on the Table in the Midst of the Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inauguration of President Leverett, on Which Conant's Is To Be Modeled Depicted as Simple, Picturesque Ceremony | 9/27/1933 | See Source »

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