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...junk shop one day last summer, Stannard had noticed an unimpressive little oil, a landscape set in a fine Gothic frame. He took it home, started scraping away the landscape with his penknife, and came face to face with Henry VIII (see cut). He had rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait...
English Art Historian Ruthven (rhymes with driven) Todd has done much to rescue Artist Fuseli from oblivion in a book, Tracks in the Snow (Scribner; $3.75) which was on sale in the U.S. last week...
...comando io!" In Roviano, wise old Scacchi said to his village priest, Don Mario Sargenti: "Now we must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into oblivion. Don Vittorio, the landowners and shopkeepers have all canceled their subscriptions to Rome's Christian Democrat daily, now read only Giannini's neo-Fascist II Buonsenso. Grumbled one: "What else can we do now-except join the Communists...
Tension. Over in the Senate, the galleries were nearly empty. During the week, the Senate had managed to approve the appointment of Lewis W. Douglas as Ambassador to Britain, send the Military Merger Bill to the Armed Services Committee, vote OPA into oblivion (expiration date: June 30), and promise a cut of $4½ billion in the President's $37.5 billion budget. The Senators had also had to stew around while colleagues on both sides of the aisle belabored the Congressional Record with eulogies of William Randolph Hearst (see PRESS), editorials and letters from the folks at home. Gradually...
...good to read your editorial in the November 20 Crimson, decrying student and Faculty apathy on the subject of Harvard's faltering tutorial system. As was cited last year in a Student Council report, this apathy is perhaps the major reason why tutorial has come near the brink of oblivion...