Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubbed their hands and prepared to break out the rescued Italian art from 45 crates turned over by the Nazis to the Vatican (TIME, July 17). Last week they rubbed their eyes. Missing from the crates were 13 of the Naples' Museum's masterpieces, a scattering of lesser art works. Among the missing: a Raphael Madonna, Fra Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, Titian's Lavinia and Danae (value: between $500,000 and $800,000), Peter Breughel's The Blind Leading the Blind-the only Breughel in Italy. Total estimated value of the missing art (by Andy...
...After Ribbentrop's departure I was able to observe the effect of his remarks, suitably edited and sweetened, as they filtered down the line to lesser lights. For a week, I was the only Allied journalist in town. Unmolested, though carefully watched, I could walk the streets, listen to the German soldiers in bars and cafes, converse with people who, though on the Axis side, still seemed anxious to explain why they did what they...
...Nazis, said Knyphausen, are preparing to use selected military units to form "islands of resistance," chiefly in the mountain regions. They mean to emulate the Partisans. Headquarters will be near Berchtesgaden, where Hitler, Mussolini, selected quislings and lesser German dignitaries can defy the Allies from the Wagnerian Berghof. Arms, supplies and lavish radio equipment are already being gathered. The radio will be used to guide a vast network of underground fanatics, enrolled under the slogan: "Join the permanent fight for European freedom...
Perhaps it is the heat, but "Dark Eyes" is definitely one of the lesser productions of the Cambridge season. Contrary to previous publicity, this one is not sophisticated, it doesn't sparkle-- it merely fizzes...
Monty's father, an Anglican bishop, was a North of Ireland man, but Monty himself was born Nov. 17, 1887 in south London. He spent his early boyhood in Tasmania, went to Saint Paul's, one of the lesser-known English public schools, thence to Sandhurst...