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Portrait of Clair, a sensitive, Mona Lisa-like, copper-colored girl (see cut), won the show's first prize ($300) for Boston Artist John Wilson...
...Collector Stanton showed his Officer to Dr. Maurice Goldblatt, director of the University of Notre Dame art galleries. "My God, you've got something there," said Dr. Goldblatt, who once helped the Louvre authenticate its famed Mona Lisa. He was, in fact, "90% sure it was a Trumbull" (John Trumbull, 18th-Century American historical painter and portraitist). Later he raised his assurance to 100%. And it was probably a portrait of Lafayette...
Among TIME'S regular readers are three bimbashis (majors in the Egyptian army) whose job is to keep peace in the unpeaceful Sudan. In Wales, believe it or not, lives TIME subscriber Mona Lisa-in Howrah, India, Swami Gangeshananda is a subscriber-and in the far-away Fijis TIME is read each week by President John Quincy Adams...
...works of Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes called the finest intelligence the world has ever produced, have had some curious outcroppings. Examples:>A Hollywood portrait of Fanny Brice painted in the pose of the Mona Lisa...
...Ambassador Espil, 56, is sometimes called the "Mona Lisa of the Pam pas" for his thought-concealing smile. He first came to the U.S. in 1919 as first secretary to the Embassy, London-tailored, expert at the tango, an escort of Wallis Spencer years before she became the Duchess of Windsor. But Don Felipe was no mere tailor's dummy. He studied the U.S. and its economics. By 1931 he had become Ambassador, and in the next twelve years operated smoothly on friction-fraught issues...