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When British Garage Owner Arthur Lindley surveyed the creaking, pre-Elizabethan cottage he owns next door to his gasoline station at Piccott's End near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, he saw a depressing sight. The wood was moldering, the rooftop sagged, grey plaster was flaking off the old brick walls. Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life. A flap of wallpaper six layers thick, backed by linen cloth, tore away, revealing beneath a broad expanse of orange, grey, black, blue and yellow mural. Recalled Lindley...
...What Lindley had uncovered is today rated as a prime artistic find: five panels of 15th century medieval religious wall paintings, blurred but still color-bright. Experts guess that the cottage was once a pilgrims' wayhouse between British shrines. Except for purposeful defacing by some iconoclasts' pikes in the dim past, the murals remain as they were painted 450 years...
...pundits talk (complained ABC's Martin Agronsky: "There's no fight here and I'm not going to make one"). ABC lined up an able but monotonous panel of experts: Author Quincy (The World We Lost) Howe, Erwin Canham (Christian Science Monitor) and Ernest Lindley (Newsweek). CBS's Sevareid-Murrow duo this time worried less about making history than reporting it, and NBC laid on durable old (78) Hans V. Kaltenborn (it was his 18th convention) with his blackboard doodlings and a lofty contempt for all the fancy new gadgetry...
CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN (384 pp.)-Thomas Mann-franslafed by Denver Lindley-Knopf...
...publicize a new history book, Publishers Grosset & Dunlap asked a panel of 28 historians, educators and journalists (including Authors Stuart Chase and Raymond Moley, Journalists Ernest K. Lindley and Virginius Dabney) to rate the 100 most significant events in history. First place: Columbus' discovery of America. Second: Gutenberg's development of movable type. Eleven events tied for third place. Tied for fourth place: U.S. Constitution takes effect, ether makes surgery painless, X ray discovered, Wright brothers' plane flies, Jesus Christ is crucified...