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Among Toledo's more out-of-the-way exhibits were an illustrated treatise on music by the 6th century Roman Boethius (better known for his Consolations of Philosophy), and an early Coptic manuscript which appears to indicate a tune by different colored notes rather than by their positioning. But most of the 103 items on view are leaves from Roman Catholic choir books, illuminated over long years of cloistered devotion by medieval and renaissance monks. They echo Byzantine mosaics and foreshadow modern art. The monks' forte was to make flat, ingenious patterns of a few brilliant colors;school...
Love seriously doubted their guilt, saying it was impossible for the Los Alamos mechanic who allegedly gave the Rosenberg's vital atom secrets to have sketched from memory in two hours a twelve page manuscript as the the mechanic claimed...
Miss Monroe recently bought the manuscript papers of the late theatrical producer Max Reinhardt. Since then, the University of Kansas, U.S.C., U.C.L.A., Stanford, and Harvard have each asked the actress to donate the books to its shelves, she stated...
...both high-minded and high-spirited. Where Eliot's cocktail-party frivolities have real emblematic force, much that is entertaining in I've Got Sixpence goes out too directly for laughs. In an extremely serious scene where the writer describes how his publishers have turned down his manuscript, he intrudes such a pure theatrical gag as: "They said it was very well typed"; and for no reason except that it is always surefire with the gallery, there is an incidental crack about Gertrude Stein...
...position in Asia. Last week the U.S. got a look at a strong "positive proposal" for Korea drawn by New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, a ranking Republican policymaker. Bridges' proposal, published in the American Mercury, carried special weight because Ike Eisenhower reportedly read it in manuscript during the last days of the campaign...