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...more than 140 different systems of weights and measures. Dates and records are kept according to 30 different calendars, at least one of which, instituted more than 500 years ago with a slight miscalculation, has slipped out of phase by 23.2 days, so that Hindu dances meant for moonlit nights are often performed in total darkness. To top it all, the Indian coinage system, based on the coinage standardized by conquering British in 1835, is at least as unwieldy as that used in Britain itself...
Sobering afterthoughts were two other exhibitions staged by the Corcoran. In one salon were hung 24 past winners, ranging from little-known Willard L. Metcalf's moonlit May Night to John Hult-berg's Yellow Sky (TIME, May 2, 1955), and including Childe Hassam, George Bellows and Edward Hopper. Across the hall was a first-rate collection made up of nothing but onetime nonwinners: Albert Pinkham Ryder, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley and John Marin. Said Corcoran Director Williams: "We know from the statistics of previous shows that only three or four...
...bright, moonlit night, and so, after entertaining Painter John Millais and his son at dinner, Wilkie Collins decided to see them home. Strolling together along the semirural roads of northern London, the three friends were halted suddenly by a piercing scream, and from out the gate of a villa dashed a young woman "dressed in flowing white robes that shone in the moonlight." Painter Millais exclaimed: "What a beautiful woman!", while Novelist Collins disappeared into the night crying: "I must see who she is and what's the matter...
...Heaton found, was the most serious: it had entered through the upper right thigh and stopped at the base of the spine. The doctor's recommendation was an operation at the Canal Zone's famed Gorgas Hospital. At 3 a.m. a blue ambulance crept through the lonely, moonlit streets of Managua. Only four hours after Heaton's Constellation reached Managua, it was headed toward Panama with Somoza, his wife, and the task force of doctors. At Gorgas four surgeons, including Heaton, worked for four hours and 20 minutes removing the bullets in the thigh and near...
Back nearer to home, meanwhile, the famous Esplanade Concerts by what amounts to the Boston Pops Orchestra will be sending rhythmic ripples out over the moonlit waters of our own Charles River. The concerts, which are "half-classical," will take place every evening starting tonight (July 2) and lasting until July 14, with the exception of Saturday, July 7. The site is the Hatch Memorial Shell just off Boston's Storrow Drive, and the price, happily enough, is nothing. Just get on the subway and bring a blanket...