Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the exquisite Christ at Emmaus was found in the linen closet of a Paris house (TIME, Sept. 19, 1938) it was one of the big art stories of the decade. It was a soft-colored, realistic painting in the early style of Old Master (17th Century) Jan Vermeer. The Christ was authenticated by impeccable Dutch art experts, and bought by Rotterdam's Boymans Museum. Last week, a Dutch Nazi confessed that he had painted the "Vermeer" himself -and, what's more, had knocked off six others, plus two Pieter de Hooches for good measure. Total reward...
...first U.S. "basket case"* of World War II was home last week. Master Sergeant Frederic Hensel, 26, of Corbin, Ky., got his crippling wounds from a mine on Okinawa. He was walking ahead of his companion to protect him from mines when he stepped on one himself. The explosion blew off both legs above the knee, his left arm above the elbow, mangled his right hand so badly that it had to be removed on the ship home...
Democrat Boren's "conspiracy" collapsed. In a master-weaseled statement he promptly said that his inquiry was merely "to begin a study of what appears to be an example of what might be an evasion of the purpose of the Holding Company Act." Then, having summoned only two witnesses before his committee, he hastily called off his probe for the summer...
...newest arms of Holland's rich, world-powerful N. V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken (Incandescent Lamp Works Co.), of Eindhoven. Back of North American Philips are $250 million in assets, brains, familiarity with cartel pricing agreements and patent pools that in a generation made Philips of Eindhoven virtual master of Europe's radio and light-bulb industry. N.A.P., born in 1942, is already a tough baby...
...went for slashing off his wife's ear. (For one thing, she had let dirt fall on a painting he had finished and left to dry.) As penance, the artist is going to paint a religious picture. He binds a pupil to the cross, but the expression the master wants is not quite right until he thrusts a lance through the model's body. Santiago's Christ of the Agony is offered in evidence at his trial for murder, and the judges decide that the painting outweighs the crime...