Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the gilded ceiling of Paris' Palais du Luxembourg, where Napoleon came to ask fresh levies to send against the Austrians and the Prussians, where Clemenceau, vengeful "Tiger" of the Versailles Treaty, once brooded in the red velvet chairs, the French Senate this week declared an end to the French-German hostility that has been the central pivot of European history for 150 years...
...Chicago's Art Institute, an event the institute hailed as "one of the most remarkable 'recoveries' in art history." The Crucifixion, originally painted for Seville's white-robed Dominicans, dates from 1627, the period of Zurbaran's arrival as a mature artist. Seized by Napoleon's troops around 1807, it turned up in 1880 in the hands of Spain's Duke of Alba, who donated it to a Jesuit seminary in Canterbury, England. In 1950 the painting turned up again, heavily repainted, and was offered for sale first to the Louvre, which turned...
...Albertine Marie Leopoldine of Belgium, 82, publicity-shy younger daughter of Belgium's late Leopold II, great aunt of Belgium's current King Baudouin, mother of prosperous Businessman-Prince Louis Napo leon, 41, current Bonapartist pretender to the throne of France (as great grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother); of a heart ailment; in Nice, on the French Riviera...
...Tolstoy's War and Peace, Broadway Producer Mike Todd (TIME. Dec. 13) and Italian Producer Dino de Laurentis are well ahead of M-G-M and David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick. De Laurentis already has a crew in Finland ready to shoot snowy backgrounds for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, although his six writers have not yet done the script for Director King (Duel in the Sun) Vidor. Unintimidated. Todd hired Fred (From Here to Eternity) Zinnemann to direct and Playwright Robert Sherwood to write his version, announced that he had budgeted the movie...
...Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has tried hard to live up to its founders' aims: "To unfold, enlighten and invigorate the talents of our countrymen." It got off to a glowing start when Philadelphia's Nicholas Biddle, then secretary to the U.S. Minister to France, flattered Napoleon into sending plaster casts of the classic statues his armies had just looted from Italy. From other donors came more contributions, including one shipment of paintings from Europe which was captured by the British in the War of 1812, released only after British courts held them not to be rightful...