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Before the war in Italy rolled north to Monte Cassino, the chief ornament of the monastery's Chapel of the Assumption was a handsome altarpiece of the Virgin. Then the ancient monastery threatened to become a defensive keystone for the Germans, and U.S. bombers leveled it.*The painting, by 17th-Century Paolo de Matteis, disappeared amid the rubble. Officially it was written off as a lost art treasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Displaced Masterpiece | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

SCHOENHOF'S is featuring the calendar at $1.50, along with other Swiss imported calendars at their 1280 Massachusetts Avenue store. All are strongly mounted to make a handsome desktop ornament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Gift Suggestions | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

SCHOENHOF'S is featuring the calendar at $1.50, along with other Swiss imported calendars at their 1280 Massachusetts Avenue store. All are strongly mounted to make a handsome desktop ornament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Gift Suggestions... | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

SCHOENHOF'S is featuring the calendar at $1.50, along with other Swiss imported calendars at their 1280 Massachusetts Avenue store. All are strongly mounted to make a handsome desktop ornament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas: The Crimson Suggests . . . | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...Mercedes (Germany): the oldest car in the show. Drexler called it "an amusingly solemn piece of stagecraft" with "a necklace of lights, bumpers, straps, horns-and handles, undecorated but nevertheless expressively decorative, as were the caps and goggles which used to ornament the serious motorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hollow Rolling Sculpture | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

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