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...rapidly dying. The President sprang from his chair and took his dying son in his arms, shouting hysterically into his ears that he would soon join him in the great beyond, and requesting that young Calvin so inform his grandmother (the mother of the President). A medallion of the grandmother was also placed in the hands of the dying boy . . . The boy died...
...symbols of war and peace. But sculptors of the period seldom let art stand in the way of such a grand theme, and the resulting decorations reminded a modern critic of illustrations from an old edition of Bulfinch's Mythology. With all the subtle reserve of Victorian design, one medallion contains a Roman corselet, a sword and a helmet, shields, sprays of laurel leaves, Roman faces, spear heads, part of a fortress, and, topping all, an American eagle bearing a thunderbolt...
James McNeill Whistler's monogram was a butterfly, which appears in medallion form in his portrait of Thomas Carlyle (see spread). In his landscapes, Whistler was a butterfly, gently sipping the sweetness of nature and making it the subject of canvases so subtle and thinly brushed as to seem evanescent. He lived in London, made his mission "revealing the Thames to the people who lived on it but had previously only seen it as a stretch of water...
...Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS). Charlton Heston in A Day in Town...
...Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS). Helen Hayes in Battle Hymn...